KURDISH TENTS OF SINJAR
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was a traveller, diplomat & artist, Consul to Queen Victoria in Mesopotamia
(1850-1855) & Kurdistan. He made many drawings, of which this is one, which included his
Arab friends of the Jebouri tribe & places: Belled Sinjar, (Kurdistan) Kowkoob cemetry
Sinjar minaret, Akhtar, the Chichi Kurds, the Khadour, etc.
Many of his drawings was used by Sir Austen Henry Layard for his archaelogical publications.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Henry_Layard
Subject: Portraits of Kurds & Arabs, some with their names
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 11 x 27 cms. approx.
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