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Caption: Persian noble woman in jeweled turban, fur-trimmed jacket, tunic and pantaloons, smoking a hookah pipe, reclining on cushions and carpet. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker and Mercier after an illustration by H. Hendrickx 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.
Credit: Album / Florilegius
Image size: 5655 × 3710 px | 60.0 MB
Print size: 47.9 × 31.4 cm | 2226.4 × 1460.6 in (300 dpi)