Two Veiled Young Women, probably Lilla Amnani and Her Sister
1786
- Medium
- graphite, watercolor, red chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 25.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210431
Richard Cosway was a prolific painter in London, most well-known for his portrait miniatures and drawings, which he made both on commission and as personal exercises or mementos. This drawing features two women who may be fantasized versions of the two wives of Sidi Hadji Abdurrahman Adja, a Tripolitan ambassador who visited London in 1786. A published account of the ambassador’s home life circulated around this time. Cosway may have invented the ladies as a form of novelistic intrigue when he made a drawing featuring the ambassador.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2023.47
Registry history
- 1786 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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