Study for Mehmet Ali Pasha
Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for Mehmet Ali Pasha

John Frederick Lewis (British, 1805–1876) · c. 1844

watercolor, gouache, black chalk, and graphite
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lord Elphinstone, governor of Madras, described this drawing in an 1845 letter as "the best, and in fact, the only good likeness [of Mehmet Ali Pasha] I have seen, and I saw it within a quarter of an hour of leaving the original."

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