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Koord or native of Koordistan, Turkey, in Asia
[Anon., c.1840]
Pen and ink, sheet 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Glued to backing sheet.
Costume sketch of male from Kurdistan, a region now stretching across parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
[Ref: 40870] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Interior Of The Chief's House At The Kurdish Village Of Espindar.
R. Clive Del. Dickinson & Co. Lith. [Artist's monogram and dated 1852 in plate lower right.]
[1852.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 435 x 595mm (17¼ x 23½"). Some spotting/foxing.
Interior view in a Kurdish household in modern day northern Iraq. A European traveller, presumably the artist's travelling companion, in foreground to left. Plate 20 to Robert Clives' folio 'Sketches between the Persian Gulf & Black Sea', 24 plates, Dickinson Bros., London 1852. British Library: 000726770.
[Ref: 9966] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
A Kurd of the Plains, Charging.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph, with fine hand colour. Sheet 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper, title pasted on.
A mounted warrior, spear in his right hand, shield in his left, depending on his stirrups to stay in his saddle. We have been unable to trace the publication.
[Ref: 52656] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Cavaliers du Kurdistan Dessin tiré de l'album du voyage en Perse du Commandant Duhousset
Paris, L. Cremière édit 28 rue de Laval Imp. Lemercier & C.ie Paris
Chromolithograph, printed area 185 x 255mm (7¼ x 10"). Large margins.
Asian subject after a drawing by Emile Duhousset, a commandant in the French army who was part of the French military mission to Persia in 1859-60. In Persia he was appointed as Master-of-Arms to the Shah, and made numerous drawings recording his experiences. See 39202 for Proof before letters.
[Ref: 39201] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Cavaliers du Kurdistan] [Dessin tiré de l'album du voyage en Perse du Commandant Duhousset]
[Paris, L. Cremière édit 28 rue de Laval Imp. Lemercier & C.ie Paris]
Chromolithograph, printed area 165 x 255mm (6 x 10"). Proof before letters. Large margins.
Asian subject after a drawing by Emile Duhousset, a commandant in the French army who was part of the French military mission to Persia in 1859-60. In Persia he was appointed as Master-of-Arms to the Shah, and made numerous drawings recording his experiences. See 39201 for lettered impression.
[Ref: 39202] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Portraits, Types Et Costumes Kurdes. (Haute-Armenie 1847.)
Dessine d'apres nature et lith par Jules Laurens. Imp. par Lemercier, rue de Seine 57, Paris.
Publie par Pierre-Bertrand, Editeur. [n.d., c.1859.]
Lithograph, image 320 x 445mm. Light spotting, mostly outside image. Small tears to paper extremities at left.
Joseph Auguste Jules Laurens (1825 - 1901) travelled with the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell on a scientific journey to Turkey and Persia, making over a thousand drawings of the sites, costumes and people he encountered. After Hommaire died of cholera in 1848 Laurens sent his notes back to his widow in Paris who completed a full account of their travels, 'Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, exe´cute´ par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les anne´es 1846, 1847 et 1848', containing many lithographs by Laurens.
[Ref: 7704] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
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