Dhaif Allah

p 509, line, Roberts, 120 x 113 mm

Signature, 'William Roberts', brc, handwritten title, 'Dhaif-Allah', right of bottom centre. Dhaif-Allah seated right, looking left at workers at well, tree and birds top right, group of men with staves top left.

p 212 [tr ed p 231] - 'In its midst opened the well of clear cold water, above which stood a balance-cantilever of mud and rude poles. By this Dhaif-Allah, morning and evening when the sun was low, drew up great bowls of water and spilled them into clay runnels contrived through his garden among the tree roots.'

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