Donated to the V&A by Robert Murdoch Smith in 1883, together with a batch of sixty-four other printed cotton specimens from Isfahan, and four carpet fragments: "The [cottons] I got from the calico printers at Ispahan, most of them at least. I have a good many specimens of <i>old</i> printing."
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Donated to the V&A by Robert Murdoch Smith in 1883, together with a batch of sixty-four other printed cotton specimens from Isfahan, and four carpet fragments: "The [cottons] I got from the calico printers at Ispahan, most of them at least. I have a good many specimens of <i>old</i> printing."