Theodore Robinson World's Columbian Exposition painting

Theodore Robinson World's Columbian Exposition paintingMary Cassatt Children on the Shore paintingMary Cassatt Young Mother Sewing painting
-- swells and bursts within the marquee, the already astonished congregation beholds the doubly sensational spectacle of the Grandee Abu Simbel placing his thumbs upon the lobes of his ears, fanning out the fingers of both hands and uttering in a loud voice the formula: "Allahu Akbar." After which he falls to his knees and presses a deliberate forehead to the ground. His wife, Hind, immediately follows his lead. pebbles thrown into a lake; until the entire gathering, outside the tent as well as in, kneels bottom--in--air before the shuteye Prophet who has recognized the patron deities of the town. The Messenger himself remains
The water-carrier Khalid has remained by the open tent-flap throughout these events. Now he stares in horror as everyone gathered there, both the crowd in the tent and the overflow of men and women outside it, begins to kneel, row by row, the movement rippling outwards from Hind and the Grandee as though they were