(BROOK, Thomas Fleetwood.) Scenes in Mesopotamia (Being reproductions from eight water colour sketches by Major T. F. Brook). No place, printer, or date, (circa 1918).
Eight colour illustrations; being reproductions from eight water colour sketches by Major Brooke, mounted on grey card with printed captions, each card measuring 87*140mm, preserved within the original wrapper portfolio, oblong 8vo. A near fine example.
The inside of the wrapper portfolio details the scenes portrayed by the colour illustrations:
1. The Port of Busra – 1918.
2. Ashra Creek – Busra.
3. Arab Girl with Watering Pot.
4. Khalil Pasha Street – Baghdad.
5. Mosque near the Citadel – Baghdad.
6. A Bedouin Arab Camp.
7. A Stormy Evening – Feluja.
8. Hit Town on the Euphrates River.
This is a very rare item with just a single institutional holding located at the Imperial Museum at the time of cataloguing. Major Brook initially served with the Army in Belgium, before serving in Iraq with the Signals and Transport Corps from January 1916 to December 1918.
The illustrations provide a wonderful insight into this important period of Iraqi history. “The entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War in October 1914 threatened British interests in the Middle East. The British government decided to send troops to Mesopotamia – present-day Iraq – to protect the valuable oil fields near Basra. A British and Indian assault force landed there in November and achieved early successes against the Turkish troops of the Ottoman Empire, capturing first Basra and then Qurna…. The armistice signed with the Ottoman Empire in October 1918 brought the Mesopotamian Campaign to an end. There had been around 100,000 casualties amongst the British and Indian troops during the four years it had lasted. It was seen by many to have been a huge and pointless waste of life.” (Imperial War Museum.)
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Eight colour illustrations; being reproductions from eight water colour sketches by Major Brooke, mounted on grey card with printed captions, each card measuring 87*140mm, preserved within the original wrapper portfolio, oblong 8vo. A near fine example.
The inside of the wrapper portfolio details the scenes portrayed by the colour illustrations:
1. The Port of Busra – 1918.
2. Ashra Creek – Busra.
3. Arab Girl with Watering Pot.
4. Khalil Pasha Street – Baghdad.
5. Mosque near the Citadel – Baghdad.
6. A Bedouin Arab Camp.
7. A Stormy Evening – Feluja.
8. Hit Town on the Euphrates River.
This is a very rare item with just a single institutional holding located at the Imperial Museum at the time of cataloguing. Major Brook initially served with the Army in Belgium, before serving in Iraq with the Signals and Transport Corps from January 1916 to December 1918.
The illustrations provide a wonderful insight into this important period of Iraqi history. “The entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War in October 1914 threatened British interests in the Middle East. The British government decided to send troops to Mesopotamia – present-day Iraq – to protect the valuable oil fields near Basra. A British and Indian assault force landed there in November and achieved early successes against the Turkish troops of the Ottoman Empire, capturing first Basra and then Qurna…. The armistice signed with the Ottoman Empire in October 1918 brought the Mesopotamian Campaign to an end. There had been around 100,000 casualties amongst the British and Indian troops during the four years it had lasted. It was seen by many to have been a huge and pointless waste of life.” (Imperial War Museum.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
Eight colour illustrations; being reproductions from eight water colour sketches by Major Brooke, mounted on grey card with printed captions, each card measuring 87*140mm, preserved within the original wrapper portfolio, oblong 8vo. A near fine example.
The inside of the wrapper portfolio details the scenes portrayed by the colour illustrations:
1. The Port of Busra – 1918.
2. Ashra Creek – Busra.
3. Arab Girl with Watering Pot.
4. Khalil Pasha Street – Baghdad.
5. Mosque near the Citadel – Baghdad.
6. A Bedouin Arab Camp.
7. A Stormy Evening – Feluja.
8. Hit Town on the Euphrates River.
This is a very rare item with just a single institutional holding located at the Imperial Museum at the time of cataloguing. Major Brook initially served with the Army in Belgium, before serving in Iraq with the Signals and Transport Corps from January 1916 to December 1918.
The illustrations provide a wonderful insight into this important period of Iraqi history. “The entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War in October 1914 threatened British interests in the Middle East. The British government decided to send troops to Mesopotamia – present-day Iraq – to protect the valuable oil fields near Basra. A British and Indian assault force landed there in November and achieved early successes against the Turkish troops of the Ottoman Empire, capturing first Basra and then Qurna…. The armistice signed with the Ottoman Empire in October 1918 brought the Mesopotamian Campaign to an end. There had been around 100,000 casualties amongst the British and Indian troops during the four years it had lasted. It was seen by many to have been a huge and pointless waste of life.” (Imperial War Museum.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.