“The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing” engraving print framed on a wall (room mockup)

Close-up of the framed “The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing” print, showing the paper and mat

1:1 detail of “The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing”, showing the engraving texture

“The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing”, the full engraving print

Size chart: the five file ratios with pixel size and dpi

The original museum image of “The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing” beside the Tiraj engraving version

Engraving · Old Istanbul

Whirling Dervishes in a Mosque, Sepia Engraving

after William Hogarth, 1723–24

Technique: Sepia engraving
Colour: Sepia
Original: “The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing (Aubry de La Motraye's "Travels", London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 16)”, William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764), 1723–24
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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Not AI-generated. Made with Tiraj, our own printmaking simulation, from a public-domain museum image. Every colour and setting was chosen and checked by hand.

William Hogarth's plate of the whirling dervishes inside a mosque, from La Motraye's Travels (London, 1724), redrawn as a line engraving in sepia on warm cream paper.

The original

“The Inside of a Mosque, the Dervishes Dancing (Aubry de La Motraye's "Travels", London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 16)” by William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764), 1723–24, is in the public domain. The image comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which shares it under CC0 (no rights reserved).

The print

Tiraj reinterprets the plate as a burin engraving: parallel lines that follow the turning skirts, the lattice windows and the columns. The ink is sepia, the warm brown of 18th-century book plates.

The paper tone is part of the artwork; print on white matte paper. The warm cream sheet and the printing texture are printed into the file.

What’s included

5 high-resolution JPEG files (sRGB), one per proportion:

Ratio	Print sizes	Pixels	Resolution
3:2	6×4, 12×8, 18×12, 24×16, 30×20, 36×24 in	8592×5728 px	239 dpi at 36×24
4:3	8×6, 12×9, 16×12, 24×18 in	7200×5400 px	300 dpi at 24×18
5:4	5×4, 10×8, 20×16 in	6000×4800 px	300 dpi at 20×16
14:11	14×11 in	4200×3300 px	300 dpi at 14×11
ISO A	A5, A4, A3, A2, A1	7794×5505 px	235 dpi at A1

The 3:2 file is 239 dpi at 36×24 in; the ISO A file is 235 dpi at A1 and 300 dpi or more at the smaller sizes. The other files are 300 dpi at their largest size.

The 5:4, 14:11 files keep the whole picture with a paper margin, because cropping would cut into the subject; the other files are cropped slightly to fill the sheet.

Printing tips

Use heavyweight white matte paper (200 gsm or more, archival matte or cotton rag). Print at 100% / actual size, not 'fit to page', and pick the file that matches your frame. This is a landscape artwork: all files are horizontal.
Colours can vary slightly between screens and printers.

License

The original is in the public domain (verified with the museum’s API on 2026-11-06). The Tiraj interpretation is ours: the files are for personal use only. Print them for your own home or as a gift; please don’t resell, share or redistribute the files or sell prints made from them. Full license.

Digital download: nothing is shipped, frame not included. Colours vary slightly between screens and printers.