A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople — John Frederick Lewis

John Frederick Lewis

A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople

1863

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
watercolor, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 33.5 × 32 cm (13 3/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Collection no.
2023.149.1
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

John Frederick Lewis. A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople. John Frederick Lewis; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople — John Frederick Lewis. 1863.

Medium: watercolor, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 33.5 × 32 cm (13 3/16 × 12 5/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2023.149.1. The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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