Missionary scene in Tergawar

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Missionary scene in Tergawar

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1863

Wood engraving of a missionary in a brimmed hat speaking to a gathering of villagers, men in turbans and women with children, seated and standing, in Tergawar. The block is signed D. T. Smith sc.; the same engraving also appears in Marsh's The Tennesseean in Persia (1869).

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Source

Laurie, Woman and Her Saviour in Persia (1863), via Internet Archive

Laurie, Thomas; engraved by D. T. Smith · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)