(مدينة الكويت (الشرق House ornamented with peacocks

This image is made available as part of the project «Architecture of Arabia: New Horizons through Old Archives» hosted by the Royal Asiatic Society and sponsored by the Max van Berchem Foundation, established in 1973 in memory of Max van Berchem (1863-1921), the founder of Arabic epigraphy. Based in Geneva, the aim of the Foundation is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art, epigraphy, religion and literature.