John Drinkwater
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi , 1934
Gelatin silver print
22 mm x 82 mm
A print from an album of photographs taken by the renowned English poet and dramatist, John Drinkwater, whilst attending a congress of distinguished scholars gathered to celebrate Ferdowsī’s millenary and...
A print from an album of photographs taken by the renowned English poet and dramatist, John Drinkwater, whilst attending a congress of distinguished scholars gathered to celebrate Ferdowsī’s millenary and the inauguration of his mausoleum in Ṭūs. The celebrations also took place in Tehran and Mašhad.
The subject of the photograph is Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, the renowned poet and philosopher from Iraq