Historical Arab Portraits

Depictions of historical Arab figures and scenes, reflecting traditional attire and cultural practices from earlier centuries.

Queen Djombe Fatima I, Queen of Moheli

Historia de España. Trajes árabes en la edad Media. Grabado de 1872.

Queen Djombe Fatima I, Queen of Moheli

Asia. Persian family. Engraving, 19th century.

Music concert during a dinner in a 19th century Arab house. Tangier, Morocco. North of Africa. Morocco by Edmondo de Amicis 1875. Le Tour du Monde 1879

Mode, Kleidung, Volkstrachten in Griechenland um 1825-1830, von links, Bauern aus der Gegend von Athen in Festgewändern, ein Janitschar aus Janina in ...

Clothing, mountain dweller, e woman Karbul Hindu Peshawar, digitally restored reproduction he original 19th century, fashion in India, from 1600-1800, in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, from left, two Chans, chiefs from Baluchistan, then a soldier from the border between Baluchistan and Afghanistan.

Women dancing to musical accompaniment, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Folk traditional costume, clothing, history of costumes, Afghans, costumes from Asia, 1885, Afghanistan, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th cen...

Fashion, from lks, e muleteer with lambskin cap, then e merchant with lambskin cap, e people with lambskin cap, then e mollah or Ach and the main mosque Mesjid-i-Shah Ispahan, then e falconer and e rich man, digital reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown, clothing in Persia, Iran, Asia

Beggars at the city of Juda, Israel, Middle East, Orient. Syria by Charles Louis Lortet (1836-1909) Le Tour du Monde 1882

History. North Africa. Caravan in Kattiavar (Enghish East Indies). Engraving. (Later colouration). Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: Johan George Heck.

Ghawazees, Or Dancing Girls of Cairo, from Egypt and Nubia by David Roberts, 1846-1849

Israel. Haifa. Reception of German dignitaries by the general and politician Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938). Engraving. "La Ilustracion Artistica". 20th century.

Armed men of the Tuareg people in 1869, Berber people in the Sahara desert and the Sahel, Africa, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Five men in traditional clothing gather around a rug

The Reception of the Prince of Wales at Cairo, 1889.

Germany/Russia: Crimean Tatars, Munchner Bilderbogen, Braun & Schneider, 1861-1890

North Africa. Moorish noble and merchant. Colored engraving. Engraving. (Later colouration). Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.

The Zeal Offering, Rebuke Offering, Sacrifice, Woman, Woman, Men, Head, Head, Hand, Priest, Cursed Water, Curse, Fire, Old Testament, Genesis, Fourth Book of Moses, Chapter 5, Verse 18, Historical Illustration c. 1850

Country women in the Souk Medina of Fez, Fes el Bali, Morocco. North of Africa. Morocco by Edmondo de Amicis 1875. Le Tour du Monde 1879

A street performer accompanied by two musicians. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Pagazis people of Catumbela, province of Benguela. Angola, Central Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Journey from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron, Le Tour du Monde 1877

Clothing fashion in ancient Persia 6th - 5th century BC from left, King Darius in the middle upper garment, then a fan bearer and an umbrella bearer, a spear and bow bearer is a companion of the king and the next two are the bodyguards with spear and oval shield, digitally enhanced reproduction of a 19th century illustration

Near East. Parthians. From left to right; 22-23: Parthians of lower class, 24-25: higher class Parthians, 27-28-29: Parthian royal garment. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal" (Universal History), by Cesar Cantu. Volume I, 1881.

Three musicians performing. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

History.18th century. Persian empire. Persian punishments.Engraving. (Later colouration). Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.

Egypt. Snake charming by playing a bansuri in the second courtyard of Medinet Habu. Engraving. 19th century.

Clothing, fashion in India in modern history, from the left, a Bombay man, a Bombay servant, a Bombay woman, then a low-wage laborer and a Madras-born man of Dracidian descent, illustration, India, Asia

Joseph being sold by his jealous brothers to Midianite merchants, illustration by Horace Vernet from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 711, Volume XXVII, October 11, 1856.

Various characters of ancient Persian culture. Iran. Old steel engraved antique print. Published in L'Univers La Perse, in 1841. History of the ancient Persian empire

Germany/Turkey: Turkish Pasha and Two Noblemen, Munchner Bilderbogen, Braun & Schneider, 1861-1890

Clothing, fashion in Morocco, c. 19th century, from left, a girl in a housecoat, a woman of the people in an envelope cloak, the haik, then a magician with a snake, then a water seller with an animal slaughter, then a man in a haik, envelope cloak, with the burnoose over it, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

English ladies visiting moor's house. Engraving after painting by John Bagnold Burgess (1830-1897) also titled "The Meeting of East and West". La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, July 15, 1876.

An Arab family of Tlemcen, Algeria, c1890. Artist: Bertrand

The First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896). Italians in Abyssinia. Major Tommaso Salsa and Captain Annibale Anghera before the emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II (1844-1913) in Menelik's camp with a peace proposal requesting a renewed acceptance of the Wuchale Treaty Cessation but it was rejected. Engraving by Hector Ximenes in "La Ilustracion Artistica", 1896. Colored.

Ibn Battuta in Egypt. Ibn Battuta, Moroccan born traveller and scholar, was born in Tangier 1304 and died in Morocco circa 1368-1369.

Slaves at a Well, Watering Place, 1659, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Hebrews. From left to right, 5: type of mantle, 6: Persian-Hebrew costume, 7-8: Assyrian-Hebrew mixed costumes. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal" (Universal History), by Cesar Cantu. Volume I, 1881.

The traditional dance of the Nusayris Arab community, Nusayriyah Mountains. Syria, Middle East. The Nusayris by Léon Cahun 1878. Le Tour du Monde 1879

AFGHAN HOSPITALITY, 1879

Clothing, fashion in Africa, Egypt, from left, a servant, a pair of wandering musicians, a water seller and two woman with face veils fetching water, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original, Africa

Turkey. Ottoman Empire. Sultan receiving some members of the Council in the Topkapi Palace courtroom. Istanbul. Engraving of the nineteenth century.

History of Germany. Middle Ages. 1200. From left to right, 1: knight, 2: physician, 3: falconer, 4: knight, 5-6: Jews, 7: Knight of the Teutonic Order, 8-9-10-11: noblewomen. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by Cesar Cantu. Volume X, 1881.

Retinue of Shah Shoojau Ool Moolk, Mahomed Shah Giljee, Chief Executioner, Ghufoor, a mutilator, Kabul, Afghanistan, after an illustration from 1838 by James Atkinson (1780-1852), Illustration, Reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Persian officers in traditional dress standing in front of an architectural background

Four men in traditional garments, two of them with weapons

Arabes Toraht, Bédouins de la presqu'île de Sinaï, 1830, by Zéphirin Félix Jean Marius Belliard (1798-1861). Lithograph published in Paris by Girard. Size 40 x 58 cm. Depicts the Bedouin people of the Sinai Peninsula

Besharah, of the Beni Said tribe, a member of the artists' travelling party in Egypt, Sinai and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Joghi Wallahs at Benares, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. Indian ascetics: '...an exhibition of "joghi wallahs." These are a class of Hindoo religious mendicants, who appeal to the superstitious reverence and sympathy of the people by stationing themselves in an immoveable attitude, or by repeatedly performing some painful gesture, sometimes holding a cumbrous weight in the most tedious and inconvenient manner. They are of both sexes, and display a vast deal of misdirected ingenuity, as well as fortitude, in the variety of their feats of endurance, which are reward

Atamaram, Prime Minister of the Head of Koondooz, Naib Mahomed Shureef, Gholam Mahomed, Barukzye and Jan Fishan Khan, Pergamee, Afghanistan, after an illustration from 1838 by James Atkinson (1780-1852), Illustration, Reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Four gentlemen in traditional robes and turbans stand in front of a mountain backdrop

Folk traditional costume, clothing, history of costumes, Afghans of the Khaibar Pass, costumes from Asia, 1885, Afghanistan, digitally restored reprod...

Inhabitants of Mount Sinai. Lemaitre direxit. Engraving. Panorama Universal History of Arabia, 1851. Later colouration.

The Jezail (sometimes Jezzail from the Pashto language) was a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade muzzle-loading long arm commonly used in British India, Central Asia and parts of the Middle East in the past.

Bameean, Tajuks of Bameean and Kohistan, Afghanistan, after an illustration from 1838 by James Atkinson (1780-1852), Illustration, Reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, A family with child in traditional dress in a mountain landscape with eroded cliffs

Folk traditional costume, clothing, history of costumes, Afghans of the Khaibar Pass, costumes from Asia, 1885, Afghanistan, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Asia

Fashion, man from Monastir, e Turkish harem lady er Instabul, food carrier, salesman Istanbul, then dervish porter, also from Istanbul, digital reproduction er original from the century, original date unknown, clothing, traditional costumes in Turkey in the 19th century, from left, a Turkish khawaja or khwaja in Scutari in Albania

The prayer of Arabs. Alchimowicz, Hiacynt (1841-post 1906), painter

'The School of Sooltan Hassan', c1869. Artist: Edward Goodall.

Mode, Kleidung in Westturkestan und Bokhara, von links, ein Mann aus Bokhara, dann ein Oberfalkner, dann ein stattlicher Mann in einem goldenen und si...

Clothing, fashion in Africa, Central and East Africa, from left, a Nubian dancer, an Abyssinian chief with a splendid coat, a Somali woman, a Swahili Negro in festive traditional costume, a Swahili woman in festive costume, an Arab from Zanzibar and a water carrier from Zanzibar, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original

Turkey. Administration of the Ottoman Empire. From left to right: Grand Vizier, Kaim-Mekam, Reis Efendi and Khadjedhian, member of the Divan. Historia de Turquia, 1840. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Lesueur. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.

Moslems in prayer. Illustration by E. Dinet (1861-1929) for La Vie de Mohammed, prophete d'Allah.

The Sheikh of Bornu with retinue, today Nigeria, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Turki zapadnago berega Chernago moria. Timm, Vasili Fëdorovich, 1820-1895. still image. Prints. 1851 - 1862. Rare Book Division. Russia , Social life and customs, Russia , History, Arts, Russian

Darbar of Maharaj Rana Dholepore, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1872).

Persian men smoking the narguile and perses de bombay. Near Isfahan. Iran. Old steel engraved antique print. Published in L'Univers La Perse, in 1841.

Folk traditional costume, clothing, history of costumes, Turkoman woman, Central Asia, 1880, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century origina...

Snake Charmer and Musicians in Morocco Date: circa 1906

Mode, Kleidung, Trachten im südwestlichen Kaukasus, von links, eine Frau aus Armenien, dann eine Frau aus Griechenland, dann ein Grieche mit Baschlikt...

Woman from the Bongoua tribe in 1870, in Ivory Coast, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Exact date unknown

'Hindoo Bankers of the North-West Provinces', c1891. From "Cassell's Illustrated History of India Vol. I.", by James Grant. Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York

Tatary, vykhodiashchie iz mecheti v Bakhchisarae.. Timm, Vasili Fëdorovich, 1820-1895. Prints. 1851 - 1862. Rare Book Division. Russia , Social life and customs, Russia , History, Arts, Russian

The wedding of Nedjma. Traras mountains, Northwest Algeria, Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Six month with the Traras Berber tribe in Oran by Charles de Mauprix,1888 from Le Tour du Monde 1889

Manua Sera and captain Uledi, shipwrecked savior. Chromolithography. Africa inexplorada, el Continente Misterioso by Henry Morton Stanley, c. 1887.

A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: standing, beating a drum with his left hand and plucking a stringed instrument with his right hand. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht, 1876.

The Carrier with the Water Pipe, Servant in the Sultan's House Brings a Pipe to His Master, 1850, Painting by John Frederick Lewis., Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Religious beggars in 1880 in Benares, Varanasi, India, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Asia

Kleidung, Mode in Afrika, Zentral- und Ostafrika, von links, eine nubische Tänzerin, ein abessinischer Häuptling mit prächtigem Mantel, eine Somalieri...

Daimyo, the most powerful feudal rulers from the 10th century to the middle 19th century in Japan. Drawing by Crepon. Travel to Japan, 1863-1864 by Aime Humbert (1819 -1900) Le Tour du Monde 1867

Folk traditional costume, clothing, history of costumes, man from Khiwa, Emir from Buthara, Tete Turkoman, girl from Samarkland, police soldier from B...

Preparation of oriental tea, unknown artist, engraving, Italy, 19th century.

Turkish craftsmen in Constantinople. From left to right: wood turner, babouche embroiderer and gunsmith. Chromolithography. Illustration by José Acevedo. Lithograph by José Maria Mateu. Detail. "Viaje a Oriente", 1878. Author: José Acevedo. Spanish artist of the mid-19th century.

Rulers of Mecca and Medina. Terife of Mecca and Sheikh al Haren, Governor of Medina. History of Saudi Arabia. Old engraving published in L'Univers Ar

Stonemasons in Jerusalem, today Israel, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model, Record date not stated

Kleidung, Mode in Spanien und Portugal um 1500-1540, spanische Mauren, von links, ein Jäger mit Jadgspeer, ein Krieger mit gestreiftem Hemd, ein Mann ...

Two standing men holding hookahs. Gouache painting.

A Rag Fair in Algeria, circa 1906

theatre audience Turkish men listen to a meddah (story teller) engraving 19th century,

THE IMPENDING FAMINE IN BENGAL

Old district chiefs in the Fergana region. Uzbekistan, Central Asia. From Orenburg to Samarkand 1876-1878 by Madame Marie Ujfalvy-Bourdon, Le Tour du Monde 1879

Four Russians, dressed according to the fashion of approx. 1580, in or before 1581 Prent shipped Het Boek 'all the near Europe, Asia, Aphric and America nations attitude ...', 1581. The Prent Maakt deel shipped van een album. paper engraving Prent shipped Het Boek 'all the near Europe, Asia, Aphric and America nations attitude ...', 1581. The Prent Maakt deel shipped van een album. paper engraving

The five figures to the left depict ancient Syrian men and a woman. The four figures to the right depict ancient hebrews. From left to right, they are: a man of high rank, a woman and man of low rank, and a priest.

Types and Costumes of the Zagros Highlands - Mutcheid and his Officers

Scene from the biblical story, The story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, authentic reproduction of a school mural, historical, around 1900

This illustration shows Nicolo Polo (Marco's father) at the court of the Khan (ruler) of Tartary, that is, Genghis Khan.

THE GRAND DURBAR AT BOMBAY

Transport of Moorish prisoners in Morocco, woodcut circa 1871

Dance of the Bayaderes - Aspects of Indian Life

The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew. Shortly after the visit of the Magi, who had learned that King Herod int...

Costume studies of three Derwishen in Kaffa, Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1832 - 1842 drawing paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush religious communities ~ Islam, Mohammedanism. priest ~ Islam, Mohammedanism. folk costume, regional costume

Chuvash people. Turkic ethnic group, native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia. The Chuvash people wearing traditional clothing. Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin. History of Russia by Jean Marie Chopin (1796-1870). Panorama Universal, Spanish edition, 1839.

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