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Orientalist etchings: BIDA, Alexandre The Song of Songs (Revised Version) with Twenty-Six Etchings .. from Designs by Bida. London, 1886 folio plates beautifully printed in soft tones, publisher's half dark red leather. Limited to 250 copies. The French artist Bida was famed for his representations of Oriental, especially Middle-Eastern, life. Here this Biblical celebration of sexual longing provided the basis for his illustrations of young persons in pastoral settings.
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