Photograph · IllustrationAA-0176

Athanase Abd-El-Messih, Syrian bishop, on his 1839 visit to France

Date: 1839

Lithographed half-length portrait of Mgr Athanase Abd-El-Messih, captioned "évêque syrien", in a turban and robe with a pectoral cross, holding a book. A note on the sheet reads "Voyage en France en 1839"; the BnF gives his birth year as 1788.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica (Estampes, portrait files)

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Reference: BnF Estampes N-2 (ABD-EL-MESSIH, Athanase)

Athanase Abd-El-Messih, Syrian bishop, on his 1839 visit to France

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