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John Frederick Lewis

Study for Mehmet Ali Pasha

c. 1844
watercolor, gouache, black chalk, and graphite

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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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