[IRAQ.] &
BROOK (Major T.F.).
Scenes in Mesopotamia. (Being reproductions from eight watercolour sketches by Major T.F. Brook)
RARE SKETCHES OF IRAQ DURING WWI
A rare portfolio of Iraqi views by a British Major who served in the Mesopotamian Campaign of WWI (Signals and Transport Corps, January 1916 to December 1918). The watercolours were most likely painted during the war, then reproduced back in the United Kingdom. Major Thomas Brook (1881-1965) served in the Liverpool Regiment 1902-15 and in the Indian Army 1915-19.
The eight watercolours are titled “The Port of Busra - 1918”, “Ashar Creek - Busra”, “Arab Girl with Watering Pot”, “Khalil Pasha Street - Baghdad”, “Mosque near the Citadel - Baghdad”, “A Bedouin Arab Camp”, “A Storming Evening - Fuluja”, and “Hit Town on the Euphrates River”.
Rare. OCLC lists just one example, at Stanford. We have located one further institutional holding, at the Imperial War Museum.
