KURDISH TENTS OF SINJAR

KURDISH TENTS OF SINJAR 

 Artist: Frederick CharlesCooper (c.1810-c.1880) 
 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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