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Turbans

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  • An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • A Sikh soldier with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Marguerite Agniel posing with her legs crossed and hands together resting on her legs.
  • A French tooth-drawer wearing a turban and pretending to be Turkish in order to attract clients, holding a large tooth and an enormous tooth extractor. Engraving by N. Dupuis after F. Eisen.
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Catalogue

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    Marguerite Agniel posing in a somersault position wearing a silver two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.

    | Date: 1929 | Reference: 540205i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    Indian kettle-drummers. Gouache drawing.

    | Reference: 32429i
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    Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 27050i
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    A pair of bearded musicians, in a temple.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535972i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    Marguerite Agniel kneeling on one leg and stretching the other behind her.

    | Date: 1929 | Reference: 540142i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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