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Images from the collections

Images about Arabs

8 images from works
  • The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.
  • An Arab sheikh smoking a hooka attended by his pipe-bearer. Coloured lithograph by Saint Germain, c. 1850, after E. Prisse.
  • Two Arab men standing outdoors to converse and smoke. Coloured lithograph by C. Bour, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • People eating and drinking before a tapestry; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • An Arab man in North Africa carrying a bow in his hand and he has a quiver of arrows on his back. Woodcut after C. Vecellio.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Works from the collections

36 works

    • Books

    Byzantium and the Arabs in the fourth century / Irfan Shahîd.

    Irfan Shahid | Date: [1984], ©1984
    • Books

    Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

    Beugnies. | Date: 1896
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    The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

    Carlo Maratta | Reference: 24059i
    • Books

    Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb / taʼlīf al-shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī, ḥaqqaqahu al-duktūr Iḥsān ʻAbbās.

    Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari | Date: [1968]
    • Books

    Dardishi : issue 01.

    | Date: 2019
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Smoking
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Tobacco Smoking
Arab World

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