The Muharram Festival, Persia East Dunbartonshire A group of labourers and

A group of labourers and criminals are shown discussing initiatives that were designed both to improve the education of the working-classes

Study for the figure of an apostle

a new song

'Miss Anna Elizabeth Clements'

In mid-November 1867

The Muharram Festival, Persia East Dunbartonshire A group of labourers andThe Muharram Festival, Persia. The Mourning of Muharram is practised by Shia Muslims in the first month of their year. It commemorates the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali and his followers at the Battle of Karbala in 680 (year 61 of the Islamic calendar). A print from Customs of the World, Volume II Hutchinson and Co, Paternoster Row, London.