Ibrahim Pasha

p [59], line, Roberts, 125 x 110 mm

Signature, 'William Roberts', tlc, and handwritten title, 'Ibrahim Pasha', bottom centre. Women striking camp around their sleeping master.

p 130 [tr ed p 150] - 'When he was to march, his women rose before dawn, and footing noiselessly overhead on the taut tent-cloth, unskewered the strips of it, while others beneath held and removed the poles till all were struck and divided into camel-loads, and loaded.'

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