Habit of Dervise of India in 1700

by Thomas Jefferys

The specific engraving called "Habit of a Dervise of India" is a product of the famous geographer Thomas Jefferys. The engraving was printed in London between 1757 and 1772 and included in A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations.

This copperplate engraving offers Europeans a rare insight into the spirituality of India during the 18th century. The engraving features a Dervise, a traveling holy man who rejects earthly possessions to seek divine truth.