Babylonian Marriage Market, 1875 - Edwin Long - Canvas Prints Frame:Wrapped the real message lies in

the real message lies in the ornaments which cover them almost entirely

a beautifully adorned courtesan parading en route to an assignation

waiting to be uncovered

He rejected the academic ideal of the mythical or historical subject

Babylonian Marriage Market, 1875 - Edwin Long - Canvas Prints Frame:Wrapped the real message lies inEdwin Longsden Long RA was an English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. He was subsequently a pupil in the school of James Mathews Leigh in Newman Street London, and practised first as a portrait artist painting Charles Greville, Lord Ebury and others. The painting shows women from ancient Babylon, whose families have not been able to afford a dowry, being auctioned off as wives.