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A Nestorian (Assyrian) man of the mountains, painting, about 1839
- Date
- 1830s
Watercolour of a mountain Nestorian in a tall felt hat, green jacket, black vest and wide checked trousers, holding a crooked staff, his long shirt sleeves hanging from the wrists as the inscription describes. One of a set of Qajar paintings commissioned by the missionary Justin Perkins; a later hand wrote "Balochistan" on the mount.
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Library of Congress, Qajar paintings commissioned by Justin Perkins collection
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