plate XXXVIII from the atlas volume ‘Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse’, to illustrate the text of pp.375 and 376 of volume VII, the early 19th century edition of the highly regarded 17th century account of the second voyage of Jean Baptiste Chardin (1643-1713), a jeweller and traveller who first voyaged to Persia and India in 1665, returning in 1671 and arriving in Isfahan in 1673, where he was appointed jeweller to Shah Suleiman I. On his return, he decided to relocate to London due to the persecution of the Huguenots in France, where he was appointed court jeweller to Charles II and became known as Sir John Chardin. He died in Chiswick,
engraving, 430 x 320 mm. (17 x 12 1/2 in), a faint horizontal crease,