Name of Object:

Turkish ladies buying jewellery

Location:

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Sharjah)

Holding Institution:

Sharjah Art Museum / Sharjah Museums Department

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Date of Object:

1873

Author:

Vittorio Amedeo Preziosi (2/12/1816, Malta-27/9/1882, Istanbul)

Inventory Number:

SM2006-216

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Watercolour

Dimensions:

298 mm x 222 mm

Provenance:

Istanbul

Description:

This watercolour, completed in 1873, shows three elegantly dressed society ladies, their faces concealed by a light veil, visiting the shop of a jeweller, his wares displayed in a small multi-tiered glass case placed on the low platform in front. While one of the ladies is seated on a carpet at the entrance to the shop to examine a pearl necklace that the old, bespectacled proprietor has offered her, her two companions wait outside and shield her to some extent from curious eyes. Vittorio Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi (1816-1882) was an artist of Maltese origin, who left for the Middle East in the early 1840s. He settled in Istanbul as a diplomatic translator and artist, specialising in touristic scenes, vistas and types

Type of Object

Painting

Citation of this web page:

Ulrike al-Khamis "Turkish ladies buying jewellery" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;ua;67;en

Prepared by: Ulrike Al-Khamis

MWNF Working Number: UA 068