Four Figure Subjects copied from Tenniel's Ilustrations to Moore's 'Lalla Rookh'1862 – 1875 Accession number: 1906P1068 Pencil on tracing paper. Width: 99 mm Height: 241 mm InformationSandys made these four tracings from John Tenniel's illustrations to Thomas Moore's epic poem 'Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance' (pub. 1861). Tenniels' sixty-nine illustrations were engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, the leading wood-engravers in the mid-nineteenth century. The top tracing is of sitar girl found on page fourteen but Sandys has ommitted her instrument. The standing figure is a tracing of the veiled prophet of Khorassen (p. 47). Near the bottom of the sheet Sandys has copied the 'figure exhorting the fleeing army to turn and fight' found on page ninety (Betty Elzea, 'Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©,' p. 152) and on the verso he has traced a group of Islamic soldiers.
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