Muslim altar-style grave monument to Coya Shawsware, or Khwaja Shahsuwar (1582-1626), a merchant and secretary to Nogdi beg the Persian embassador, formerly in St Botolphs, Bishopsgate. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries from his Smith’s Antiquities of London and its Environs, J. Sewell, R. Folder, J. Simco, London, 1792.

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