![]() In the following year, it was sold for a sum of 6000 guineas, which, at that time, was the largest amount of money paid for a piece of work whose artist was still alive. ![]() ![]() The painting took Long two years to complete and was unveiled at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1875. The writing of Herodotus inspired 19 th century British painter Edwin Long to produce his famous artwork ‘ The Babylonian Marriage Market’. One of the more controversial customs he reports on is the Babylonian marriage market in which young women were gathered up and an “auctioneer would get each of the women to stand up one by one, and he would put her up for sale”. In the 5 th century BC, Greek Historian Herodotus wrote about the customs and traditions he witnessed while in Babylon.
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