# Market Day Outside the Walls of Tangiers, Morocco

- By: Louis Comfort Tiffany (born New York City 1848-died New York City 1933)
- Date: 1873
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 32 1/8 x 56 in. (81.6 x 142.3 cm.)
- Culture: Morocco
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Art Forum
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=24107)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/798a19fe2eaa6854e63b7db3bd5bfe47.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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."