. International studio. CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE, JERU-SALEM. ETCHING BY M. K. HUGHES, Impressions of Palestine. A STREET IN DAMASCUS. LEAD PENCILDRAWING BY M. K. HUGHES, Jerusalem being built on lulls, many of thesteep, narrow streets are a series of widesteps, as at Clovelly, and camels and donkeystravel up and down with heavy loads. Per-mission to sketch in the Temple area couldonly be obtained through our Foreign Office,and this caused great delay. Owing to thecuriosity of the people, it is not pleasantsketching in the streets, though no objectionis made to your doing so.
. International studio. CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE, JERU-SALEM. ETCHING BY M. K. HUGHES, Impressions of Palestine. A STREET IN DAMASCUS. LEAD PENCILDRAWING BY M. K. HUGHES, Jerusalem being built on lulls, many of thesteep, narrow streets are a series of widesteps, as at Clovelly, and camels and donkeystravel up and down with heavy loads. Per-mission to sketch in the Temple area couldonly be obtained through our Foreign Office,and this caused great delay. Owing to thecuriosity of the people, it is not pleasantsketching in the streets, though no objectionis made to your doing so. I usually hired a boyto keep the children from crowding too closelyround me. I was told that a few years agoan artist had a trying time because he drew awoman in his street sketch. She turned on himand soon his picture was utterly uneducated Mohammedans used to believethat somehow a part of themselves enteredinto the picture and could be harmed were thepicture to be at any time in undesirable sur-roundings. Nowadays it is often the younger6 Mohammedans who are the most example, when a frie
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