Life Of Lahore Through Edwin Lord Weeks Eye

Qasim Khan Lahore

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist. After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882-83).

In 1895 Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and in 1897 he published Episodes of Mountaineering.

This collection is part of his Book and From Harper's Monthly Magazine (June-Nov. 1894) - "Lahore and the Punjab" by Edwin Lord Weeks.

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