Mrs Moore, wife of the British consul in Beirut, in Arabic dress. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1841.

Turkish embassy letters / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; introduction by Anita Desai ; text edited and annotated by Malcolm Jack.

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