Mosque at Baghdad

Place Middle East: Iraq, Baghdad
Accession Number ART00081
Collection type Art
Measurement plate: 27.7 x 16.6 cm; sheet: 37.7 x 27 cm
Object type Print
Physical description etching on wove paper
Maker Barker, David Crothers
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts the minaret of a mosque in Baghdad as seen through a doorway into a courtyard of a mosque. Men are assembled in the mosque courtyard for prayers. From Set 2 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketched done on active service in Mesopotamia and Palestine, 1916-17. Printed in 1919.