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[A Persian revue in a painting that once belonged to Ardeshir Mirza, uncle of the king.]

Luigi Pesce

Date: 1840s–60s
Medium: Albumen silver print
Department: Photographs
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Luigi Pesce

Italian colonel and photographer who traveled to Iran in 1848, during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, to train Iranian infantry units · 1828–1864

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