Study for Mehmet Ali Pasha, c. 1844. This drawing was a study for a larger watercolour (now at the Victoria and Albert Museum) of Mehmet Ali Pasha, considered by many as the "Father of Modern ; While European travel to the Middle East burgeoned during the mid 19th century, Lewis was more intrepid than most, living and painting in Cairo for a decade. Upon his return to England in 1851, he astonished London audiences with more than 600 watercolours that conjured an exotic world of sumptuous colours and textures articulated in painstaking detail.

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