The recent discovery of a group of six late 19th century Iranian oil on canvas landscape paintings and a large corpus of 19th century Iranian photographs held in a private collection outside of Iran, has provided the impetus for today’s lecture. I wish to express...

Prince Abbas Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah, was Crown Prince and, as was the tradition, was Governor of Tabriz. He was modernized the army and many institutions and was the first interface with visiting European envoys, who had to pass through Tabriz on their...