Courtesan of the royal harem, Persia. Beauty in turban, veil, fur-lined jacket, skirts, lying on a divan, smoking a hookah pipe. Perse, Femme du Harem du Roi. After an illustration by James Baillie Fraser. Handcoloured stipple engraving on steel by Choubard after an illustration by Leopold Massard from Collection de portraits et costumes des differens peuples qui habitent les cinq parties du monde, Armand-Aubree, Paris, 1837.

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