"In Intimate Outsiders, the art historian Mary Roberts brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. Roberts focuses on images produced by nineteenth-century European artists and writers who were granted access to harems in the urban centres of Istanbul and Cairo. Invited guests, these Europeans were "intimate outsiders" within the women's quarters of elite Ottoman households. At the same time, elite Ottoman women were offered intimate access to European culture through their contact with these foreign travellers. Roberts draws on a range of sources including paintings, photographs, and travelogues discovered in archives in Britain, Turkey, Egypt, and Denmark."
"Comparative study of 19th-century representations of Ottoman harems that considers both the tradition of British paintings and writings about harems as well as the perspectives of Ottoman women who commissioned their own harem portraits."@en

"intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and orientalist art and travel literature"
"Intimate outsiders the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature"@en
"Intimate outsiders the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature"
"Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature"
"Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and orientalist art and travel literature"
"Intimate outsiders : The harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature"