Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1821-1890 British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. Portrait presented to him with his wifes portrait as a wedding gift by Louis Desanges. From the book The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton, volume I, by his wife Isabel Burton, published 1893.
Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1821-1890 British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. Portrait presented to him with his wifes portrait as a wedding gift by Louis Desanges. From the book The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton, volume I, by his wife Isabel Burton, published 1893.
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