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The Seven Pillars Portraits
From the Castle Hill Press Seven Pillars, 1997
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| 14 Ghalib, pastel by Eric Kennington. 'The Turks came forward with three battalions, and a number of mule-mounted infantry, and camelry. Their command was in the hands of Ghalib Bey, who handled his troops with great keenness' Lawrence was impressed by this image: 'I hadn’t seen, till I got the set, how monumental that portrait of him is (monumental: not a very good word. "Vital" perhaps. Anyway astonishing, loud, vigorous, arresting).' Ghalib is the only Turk to appear as a Seven Pillars illustration. |
Eric Kennington, pastel.
Illustration from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the Complete 1922 Text.
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