La Caravane du Caire
date: label: Date
content: 1785–90
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Toile fragment depicting scenes from Grétry's popular opera "La Caravane du Caire" (1783) including the central slave market scene in which an Egyptian pasha chooses between an Arab and European women as potential slaves. Other vignettes include a mosque and crescent-topped obelisk, and a man leading camels.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-93
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed