Caption:
Persian mullah or priest in turban, embroidered cape, fur-lined coat, slippers, carrying a stick. Handcoloured woodcut by S.T. after an illustration by S.B. from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.