טקסט ספרותי: ENA NS 83.4

תיאור

Newspaper fragment, Iran, second half of the 19th century. "About 1861, Nasir al-Din Shah appointed Sani’ al-Mulk as Director of Printing and Chief Illustrator and he was charged with the responsibility of editing the weekly court newspaper Ruznameh-ye Dowlat-e ʿAliyeh-ye Iran (The newspaper of the great government of Iran), printed by the lithographic process and illustrated with portraits of princes, statesmen and soldiers as well as representations of remarkable events." Donna Stein, "The Photographic Source for a Qajar Painting," in Scheiwiller (ed.) Performing the Iranian State (2013), p. 24.