Untitled (Portrait of Emir Faisal)
Artist
Harry Everett Townsend
(1879 - 1941)
Date1917-18
MediumCharcoal on paper
DimensionsSheet Dimension: 10 1/4 × 8 1/8 in. (26 × 20.6 cm)
ClassificationsInk
Credit LineSanford B. D. Low Memorial Illustration Fund
Object number1970.57.86
DescriptionJanuary 25, 1919"The Arabians sat so quietly thro it all. With their interesting costumes, the only strange note in the assembly, their heads in their hands all the time it seemed, they lent rather an air of mystery to the meeting.." pg. 208
February 14 1919
"Then the Arabian rose to ask in regard to the mandatories over peoples not yet considered as being able to govern themselves and as to what was to become of existing treaties they might have. He was told that this would all come up for discussion later." pg. 211
Emir Faisal: Leader of the Arab delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
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