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Description: | James McBey Damascus 11 October 1918
image: A three quarter length portrait of an Afro-Arabian man in Arab dress. He stands with his hands on his hips, wears a
sword in his cloak, and a hand-gun slung in a holster across his chest.
extended caption: 'A gigantic Abyssinian negro, his kit consisting of innumberable weapons of all epochs, from the
Saracenic scimitar to the latest Mauser automatic.'
Wellington House commission, transferred to Dept and Ministry of Information and then to the Imperial War
Museum
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Costume and fashion King of Iraq Feisal I portrait / personification 01/3(569) PI.O | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McBey, James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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