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Laurens, a young artist who had studied in the studio of the painter Paul Delaroche, was employed to record the course of their journey in a series of images that, after his return in 1849, were used to illustrate Hommaire de Hell's Voyage en Turquie et en Perse (4 vols and atlas, 1854-60). Despite the rigours of the journey and an attack of fever, Laurens filled several sketch-books with his drawings of the people and landscapes they encountered. This one was made in February 1848, as they neared Tehran on the road from Qazvin, in temperatures well below zero (-240 was recorded one day). 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