File:MoorishAmbassador to Elizabeth I.jpg

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anonymous: Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun (b.1558), Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I  wikidata:Q61884155 reasonator:Q61884155
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Title
Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I
title QS:P1476,en:"Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I"
label QS:Len,"Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I"
Russian:
«Абд аль-Вахид ибн Масуд ибн Мухаммед Анун, маврский посол к Королеве Елизавете I»
title QS:P1476,ru:"Абд аль-Вахид ибн Масуд ибн Мухаммед Анун, маврский посол к Королеве Елизавете I"
label QS:Lru,"Абд аль-Вахид ибн Масуд ибн Мухаммед Анун, маврский посол к Королеве Елизавете I"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A reproduction of an Elizabethan painting of the Moorish ambassador who visited Queen Elizabeth I from Barbary in 1600 to propose an alliance against Spain. The original belongs to the collection of the University of Birmingham, England. It is the earliest surviving English portrait of a Muslim sitter.[1]
Inscriptions to the left: 1600 / Abdulguahid (Abd el-Ouahed). Aetatis (‘Age’): 42.
Right: Legatus regis Barbariae in Angliam (‘ambassador of the king of Barbary to England’).
Depicted people Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1600
date QS:P571,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 113 cm (44.4 in); width: 87.6 cm (34.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,113U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,87.6U174728
University of Birmingham
Accession number
A0427 (University of Birmingham) Edit this at Wikidata
References Art UK artwork ID: abd-el-ouahed-ben-messaoud-ben-mohammed-anoun-b-1558-moorish-ambassador-to-queen-elizabeth-i-34714 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/east-west-objects-between-cultures/east-west-room-1

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