CIRCLE OF AMADEO PREZIOSI (MID 19TH CENTURY)
Eygptian men with a young Berber servant, wearing his blue turban
watercolour heightened with white
21.5 x 21 cm
Berbers (Imazighen) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. Originally, Berber was a generic name given to numerous ethnic groups by the Romans that shared similar cultural, political, and economic practices.