In the context of this artwork, explore the Audience exposure to Assyrian/Babylonian artefacts and artwork of the Historical context.
Bohrer, a leading Art Historian and Archaeologist notes that The Babylonian Marriage Market was ground-breaking in Long's use of Western painting tradition and Eastern myth. The English artistic audience of the time had been exposed to Babylonian / Assyrian subject matter on a range of earlier occasions.
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