COLLECTION NAME:
Costume History
Record
Work Record ID:
14166
Work Type:
prints (visual works)
Title:
A Persian Dervish
Measurements:
23.2 cm x 14.4 cm
Material:
paper
Material:
ink
Material:
pigment
Technique:
lithography
Cultural Context:
Persian (culture)
Date Original:
1843
Location:
Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Repository:
Western Michigan University, Libraries, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Call number:
DS 258 .P4 1843
Style Period:
Qajar
Subject-LCNA:
Perkins, Justin 1805-1869
Subject-LCSH:
Clothing and dress--Iran
Subject-LCSH:
Dervishes
Subject-AAT:
tunics
Subject-AAT:
hats
Subject-AAT:
alms dishes
Subject-AAT:
dervishes
Subject-AAT:
belt
Subject-AAT:
cape
Subject-TGM:
Dervishes
Subject-TGN:
Iran (nation)
Subject-Keywords:
dervishes, fakirs,
Description:
P. 375 "Several new orders have just reached our governor, from the king. Some of them are the following; viz, Every landholders must set out a thousand young trees; no beggars may be tolerated, except the lame, the sick and the blind; every man who shall appear in the garb of a Dervish must be compelled to become a soldier; no person may talk about being king-of his doing this or that-but each must occupy himself with his own business...The propriety of the other orders is readily obvious to one who witnesses the hosts of beggars that swarm in the streets of these Eastern countries, and especially the dervishes, who are as numerous and profligate in Persia as the Friars and Capuchins and other vagrant monks in Spain and Italy. These disgusting vagabonds wear long, bushy hair, dangling down upon their shoulders,-carry a fantastic knotty club in the hand-sometimes a hatchet in the girdle-and half of a huge cocoa-nut shell, furnished with a cord as a handle, upon the arm in which to receive charity." This image of a dervish shows him wearing a long, belted tunic; cloak over one shoulder; a conical hat with an ornament dangling off the tip; an alms dish; and a walking stick.
Image Source:
Perkins, Justin. A Residence of Eight Years in Persia, Among the Nestorian Christians: with Notices of the Muhammedans. Andover, MA: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1843.
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Special Collections, Western Michigan University.
Image Type:
digital images
Image Format:
image/tiff; image/jp2
Image Measurements:
85,748,689 bytes
View Description:
general views
Digital Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Collection Title:
Costume History Collection
Image Access:
For use of digital image, contact Special Collections, Waldo Library, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA 49008
Image Identifier:
EXWS_Cos_Per_019
A Persian Dervish
