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| | Ethiopian Artists of Yester-year, Part II: From FERE TSEYON to WASAN |
 | | These include King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King Leopold III of Belgium, King Gustav V of Sweden, and President Lebrun of France, as well as Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kemal Ataturk of Turkey, and Imam Yehya of the Yemen. |
 | | WOSAN was an eighteenth century Ethiopian church artist, who drew two unfinished representations of St. Peter and St. Paul preaching to the Heathens, in a copy of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, written in 1785-6, and preserved in the British Library in London (B.L. Oriental 679, f. |
 | | and v.) These pictures, one of remarkably few of this period to be signed, consist of little more than ink outlines. |
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