A Dweller in Mesopotamia, Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden

British

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In 1918, Donald Maxwell was commissioned to record the activities of the British navy in the Middle East. The commission allowed him to travel through Iraq, where he produced oil paintings and sketches of many important buildings and sites, in addition to contemporary views of urban and rural life. A selection of these were published in A Dweller in Mesopotamia, alongside the artist’s personal account of traveling through Iraq in the years following the First World War.

A Dweller in Mesopotamia, Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, Paper, board, cloth, British

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A Dweller in Mesopotamia, Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, Paper, board, cloth, British
A Dweller in Mesopotamia, Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, Paper, board, cloth, British
A Dweller in Mesopotamia, Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, Paper, board, cloth, British
A Dweller in Mesopotamia, Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, Paper, board, cloth, British

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