The Babylonian Marriage Market is an 1875 painting by the British painter Edwin Long. It depicts a scene from Herodotus' Histories of young women being auctioned into marriage in the area then known a
Babylonian marriage market
Ford Madox Brown's, The Dream of Sardanapalus, a contemporary example of Babylonian/Assyrian subject matter in painting
Detail from The Babylonian Marriage Market, showing the auctioning of the first bride. Her face is hidden to the painting's audience.
Detail highlighting the linear composition of the brides
Edwin Long
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Edwin Longsden Long was a successful English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. He is best known for his Orientalist paintings, many very large, which fetched high prices. His The Babyloni
The Babylonian Marriage Market
…The Babylonian Marriage Market is an 1875 painting by the British painter Edwin Long. It depicts a scene from Herodotus' Histories of young women being auctioned into marriage in the area then known as Babylon or Assyria. It received…
The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)
Queen Esther (1878)
The Hon. Harriet Margaret Maxwell, Viscountess Bangor (1805-1880), 1850
The Cousins, 1856