Mounted Mameluke Chieftain Calling for Aid

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Mounted Mameluke Chieftain Calling for Aid, 1817. Lithograph in black on cream wove paper.

Lithograph in black on cream wove paper · Image: 31.9 × 23.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Mounted Mameluke Chieftain Calling for Aid
Artist: Baron Antoine Jean Gros French, 1771-1835
Date: 1817
Medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 31.9 × 23.3 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 43.6 × 29.9 cm (17 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1771–1835

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.