Auguste Rene Caillie 1 pretending to study the Koran to sketch the mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, 3, with woman in cotton robe and naked child with palm frond 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1834.

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