Au Harem, Tanger (In the Harem, Tangiers)

Unknown Moroccan, Moroccan

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about 1910

Photo offset lithograph postcard

Overall: 3 7/16 × 5 3/8 in. (8.7 × 13.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

2006.18.17

Publisher

J. S. Nahon, Paris

Geography

Place Made: Morocco, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, in red ink, top left: Au Harem, Tanger.; printed on reverse, in red ink, along left side: S. J. Nahon, "Au Chic" Tanger.; printed on reverse, in red ink, top center: UNION POSTALES UNIVERSELLE / CARTE POSTALE; stamped on reverse, in blue ink, right side: CARTES POSTALES DOCUMENTAIRES. / 19_ / Collection / Louis / HESSENBRUCH / No_ ; stamped on reverse, in black ink, top right: MARO[illegible]; affixed on reverse, top right: [red and white postage stamp]

Course History

HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012

GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 89, Goddesses, Models, and Prostitutes: An Exploration of the Reclining Female Nude, Olivia Field, Class of 2015, Kathryn Conroy Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 18-August 30, 2015.

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.

Publication History

Olivia Field, A Space for Dialogue 89, Goddesses, Models, and Prostitutes: An Exploration of the Reclining Female Nude, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, checklist no. 8.

Provenance

Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.

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