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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
By the kindness of the Right Honourable Lord Western, an ancient painting is exhibited to the Society, which merits attention, if it were merely as a curious specimen of antiquity; but it will interest the Meeting more 1 especialy from the nature of its subject and the circumstances connected with its being brought into Europe at all, and with its appearance here this day.
page 77 note 1 The painting is described in p. 214 of No. X. of this Society's Journal for 1838.
page 87 note 1 In this description wo recognise tho petroleum pits spoken of by Colonel Chesney in his first survey of the Euphrates.
page 87 note 2 Bagdad was frequently called Babylon by the travellers of those days.
page 88 note 1 One would suppose he was writing of the present day.
page 88 note 2 Hence lite appellation of Kazil-bash.
page 90 note 1 This is quite consistent with the triumphal return from war of Persian Monarchs of more modern times.
page 91 note 1 The hats of the Elizabethan age were of enormous size compared with those of the present day.
page 91 note 2 This semi-lunar figure is commonly assumed by troops in Persia at grand parades.
page 102 note 1 The circumstanee of these Flemish artists residing in Persia at this time, may account for the Persian painting alluded to in the early part of this essay, having found its way to England in 1623. The painting is superior to anything which could be executed by a native artist of the present day.