The pleasure-grounds belonging to the Taj Mahal are watered daily during the dry season; and they are clothed in perpetual verdure, while the surrounding country is a wilderness.
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
Whonghee. Female slave attendants. Burma.
A Whonghee or First Minister’s wife in her Hackery with female slave attendants.
King of Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Abdallah I. Ibn Saud.
Sheikh Abdallah I. ibn Saud (1740-1818) from the House of Saud, ruled the First Saudi State and was Imam of the Wahhabi
A Chinaman. Chinese Mandarin and the dog as a sign of dignity.
The dog is a sign of dignity both in China and Siam. It appears at the portrait VAN TA GIN in Barrow’s Travels in China wears on his breast.
Gentleman of Loo Choo in his Cloak. Japan 1816.
Gentleman of Loo Choo in his Cloak
A Jelowdar sketched from life. Head of the caravan.
One of the Envoy’s Jelowdar. A person who leads and looks after a horse on the road.
A Loto Seree at the Court of Amarapoorah.
A Loto Seree at the Court of Amarapoorah, Rangoon Burma.
The Prince of Loo Choo. Okinawa Japan.
The Prince of Loo Choo. Ryukyu Islands. Shō-Dynastie. Okinawa Japan.
A Nakhan at the Court of Amarapoorah
A Nakhan at the Court of Amarapoorah, Rangoon Burma.
Spicimens of Turkish Drawings. Costume of Turkey.
Spicimens of Turkish Drawings. Ottoman Empire