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Market Day Outside the Walls of Tangiers, Morocco
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In 1867 Mark Twain traveled to the Holy Land and chronicled his adventures first in a series of newspaper articles and, in 1869, in book form as Innocents Abroad. His trip and his travelogue incited a wave of interest in visiting the Middle East. Of Morocco, Twain wrote: "We wanted something thoroughly and uncompromisingly foreign --foreign from top to bottom --foreign from center to circumference --foreign inside and outside and all around --nothing anywhere about it to dilute its foreignness --nothing to remind us of any other people or any other land under the sun. And lo! in Tangier we have found it."
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Credit lineMarket Day Outside the Walls of Tangiers, Morocco. 1873. Louis Comfort Tiffany, born New York City 1848-died New York City 1933. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Art Forum. CC0.
