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Human-Made Object
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painting
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genre subject
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religious and mythological subject
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Painting
“And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick”
'And the prayer of faith shall save the sick,' (James 5:15)
[1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick.--James v. 15.
[1872, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Signed and dated in black paint, lower right: "J.F. Lewis. 1872."
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1975.1.16
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23739178
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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35 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches (90.8 x 70.8 cm)
height
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70.8
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John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British
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John Frederick Lewis
Lewis John Frederick, 1804–1876
John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
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printmaker
orientalist painter
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painter
Royal Academician
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British
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19th century
Oil on panel
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panel (wood)
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oil paint
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painting (technique)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
283
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/652
300054766
exhibition
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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British Art Center
BAC
YCBA
Yale Center for British Art
1977
0
66
Lender
2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28
2008-02-07
2008-04-28
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
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The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting focused on the dynamic relationship between nineteenth-century British artists and the Islamic world of the Near and Middle East. In other large-scale exhibitions and publications exploring the theme of Orientalism in the visual arts, British art has typically played a supporting role to that of other countries. In contrast, this exhibition asked what was unusual about the British experience of the “Orient” during various moments of East-West contact, and how the particular traditions of British art were developed in these contexts. It also addressed the question of Orientalist painting as it exists in the world today, in the wake of Edward Said’s profoundly influential book Orientalism (1978). Through exceptional and rarely seen works by such artists as John Frederick Lewis, Edward Lear, David Wilkie, Richard Dadd, William Holman Hunt, and Frederic, Lord Leighton, as well as representative works by many less familiar names, the exhibition explored the major genres, themes, and preoccupations of Orientalist painting. In addition to sections on portraits, genre painting, and landscapes, the exhibition included sections focusing on the harem and on religious sites. — —
Venues — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
February 7–April 27, 2008 — —
Tate Britain, London: — —
June 4–August 31, 2008 — —
Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey: — —
September 26, 2008–January 11, 2009 — —
Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates: — —
February 18–April 30, 2009 — —
Credits — —
Organized by Tate Britain in partnership with the Center, the British Council, the Pera Museum, and the Sharjah Art Museum, The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting was curated by Nicholas Tromans, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University, London. The organizing curators were Christine Riding, Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Art at Tate Britain, and, at the Center, Eleanor Hughes, Postdoctoral Research Associate, with the assistance of Jo Briggs, Postdoctoral Research Associate, and Julia Marciari Alexander, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications.
Yale Center for British Art
Imaginative Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-01 - 2006-08-18)
560
300054766
exhibition
Imaginative Geographies
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
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British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
300025633
Curator
2006-02-01 - 2006-08-18
2006-02-01
2006-08-18
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04)
16
300054766
exhibition
Juxtapositions
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
300025633
Curator
300025633
Curator
1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04
1997-11-19
1998-01-04
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
204
580190
N7630 C27 + (YCBA)
8403844
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300054686
publication event
Susan P. Casteras, ^The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 49, 82-3, no. 50, fig. 8, N7630 C27 + (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Susan P. Casteras
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Casteras Susan P.
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1982
1982
1982
New Haven
204
15646094
ND467 .V515 2020 (YCBA)
1133663996
4571
300054686
publication event
Julie F. Codell, ^Victorian Artists' autograph replicas : auras, aesthetics, patronage and the art market^, Taylor & Francis, Ltd, New York, p. 283, ND467 .V515 2020 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Julie F. Codell
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Codell Julie F.
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Author
Taylor & Francis, Ltd
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Taylor & Francis, Ltd
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Publisher
0
0
New York
204
583000
N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
13422488
323
300054686
publication event
Malcolm Cormack, ^Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 146-147, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Cormack
ycba_actor_6010
Cormack Malcolm
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1985
1985
1985
New Haven, CT
204
7964230
N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
701808157
190
300054686
publication event
^Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2007
2007
2007
New Haven, CT
204
8105124
V 2577 (YCBA)
701817305
2206
300054686
publication event
^The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [44], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2008
2008
2008
New Haven, CT
204
8109897
V 1879 (YCBA)
212577303
2204
300054686
publication event
^The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 16, V 1879 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Publisher
2008
2008
2008
New Haven, CT
204
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N7429 .L87 2008 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
173720783
2205
300054686
publication event
Nicholas Tromans, ^The lure of the East, British Orientalist painting ^, Tate Publishing, London, 2008, pp. 142, 216, fig. 122, N7429 .L87 2008 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Nicholas Tromans
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Tromans Nicholas
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Author
Tate Publishing
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Tate Publishing
300025574
Publisher
2008
2008
2008
London
204
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NJ18.L5857 W437 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
877077643
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300054686
publication event
Emily M. Weeks, ^Cultures crossed : John Frederick Lewis and the art of orientalism^, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 86, 92m 93, 188 [n. 34], color detail and figs. 67 and 68., NJ18.L5857 W437 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Emily M. Weeks
ycba_actor_7041
Weeks Emily M.
300025492
Author
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7152454
https://viaf.org/viaf/131545782
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
300025574
Publisher
2014
2014
2014
New Haven
204
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
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Owner
1975
1975
1975
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gift
Painted twenty years after John Frederick Lewis returned to London after a decade in Cairo, this picture’s title is a quotation from the Epistle of St. James in the New Testament, yet the work apparently depicts a Muslim man reading from the Koran. The cross-cultural ambiguity is complicated further by the close resemblance of the reclining sick woman to Lewis’s wife, Marianne; furthermore, the cross-legged reader appears to be a self-portrait of the artist. A panel on the wall bears a relief of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, and above this is a quotation from the Koran: “We have embraced the faith, so forgive us.” Lewis’s paintings often point out convergences between the cultures of the Middle East and of Victorian Britain, and this sympathetic scene of Muslim piety, bearing a biblical title, may have reminded British viewers of the importance of understanding religious differences and challenging orientalist stereotypes.
Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
204
300048722
Gallery label
2016
Having spent much of his career seeking to raise the status of watercolor, Lewis turned his attention to oils in the late 1850s on the advice of critic John Ruskin (1819-1900). Many of his subsequent compositions exist in both media, including this one. Initially exhibited at the Royal Academy without a title but accompanied by a Bible verse from the Epistle of James (5:15)-the title by which it is now known-this painting employs motifs recognizable from many of his Egyptian subjects.
--- --- Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
204
300048722
Gallery label
2011-04
A sick woman is seen reclining in the shady porch of an Egyptian house surrounded by a diverse array of female figures. Entering through the arched doorway in the background is a female servant carrying a covered bowl, and behind her another slave bearing a covered jug to be used in ablutions, commonly performed at the moment when death was felt to be near. The butterfly fluttering just above the ground near the center of the composition symbolizes the woman's hovering at the edge of life. The reason for her impending death is unclear, and curious, given her youth. The scattered flowers might link this work to other flower paintings by Lewis, thus suggesting that she has received unfortunate news from her lover and is dying of a broken heart. Nearby, an elderly Arab gentleman, watched by a servant, reads from a decorated manuscript, possibly the Koran. The painting, which appears to be focused on the customs of Islamic culture, is nevertheless given a title that references the New Testament, radically re-orientating the painting's meaning. The subject also relates to the theme of illness in Victorian painting, which typically involves women as convalescents.
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204
300048722
Gallery label
2008-07-11
J. F. Lewis lived in Cairo from 1841 to 1851, and in that period built up an archive of over six hundred sketches on which he drew for exotic, Levantine and, in this instance, biblical subject matter for the remaining twenty-five years of his career. The image of Near Eastern daily life that emerges from his enormously meticulous work, usually executed with fine sable brushes, is refined, poetic, and often deliberately ambiguous or unsettling, though unlike the work of his French Orientalist counterparts, Lewis’s paintings are rarely explicitly erotic. The Christian source, the Epistle of James which is addressed to all Jews scattered abroad, here elides conveniently with Lewis’s repertoire of orientalist models, setting, strong light, brilliant colors, textures, and paraphernalia, while the very subject of languishing illness was in any case both familiar and popular in mid- to High Victorian art.
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204
300048722
Gallery label
2008
300189799
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illness
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illuminated manuscript
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religious texts
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Qu'ran
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textiles
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mosaics
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wall tile
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flowers (plants)
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flowers (plants)
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arch
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building
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man
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light
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women
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servants
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ill
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reading
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jug
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turban
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vase
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death
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sick
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bed
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bowl
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Christianity
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Islam
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genre subject
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religious and mythological subject
Hathor, ancient Egypt goddess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor
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Hathor, ancient Egypt goddess
prayers
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Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 49, 82-3, no. 50, fig. 8, N7630 C27 + (YCBA)
580190
N7630 C27 + (YCBA)
8403844
517
related to
Julie F. Codell, Victorian Artists' autograph replicas : auras, aesthetics, patronage and the art market, Taylor & Francis, Ltd, New York, p. 283, ND467 .V515 2020 (YCBA)
15646094
ND467 .V515 2020 (YCBA)
1133663996
4571
related to
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 146-147, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
583000
N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
13422488
323
related to
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
7964230
N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
701808157
190
related to
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [44], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577
8105124
V 2577 (YCBA)
701817305
2206
related to
The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 16, V 1879 (YCBA)
8109897
V 1879 (YCBA)
212577303
2204
related to
Nicholas Tromans, The lure of the East, British Orientalist painting, Tate Publishing, London, 2008, pp. 142, 216, fig. 122, N7429 .L87 2008 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
8080436
N7429 .L87 2008 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
173720783
2205
related to
Emily M. Weeks, Cultures crossed : John Frederick Lewis and the art of orientalism, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 86, 92m 93, 188 [n. 34], color detail and figs. 67 and 68., NJ18.L5857 W437 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
12270912
NJ18.L5857 W437 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
877077643
3457
related to
300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
204
300133025
Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:204
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:204
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/204
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/204
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art