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Kouyunjick
Kouyunjick is a watercolor work on paper by the Romanticist artist Frederick Charles Cooper. It dates from 1850 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Frederick Charles Cooper’s watercolour drawing titled *Kouyunjick* depicts the site of ancient Nineveh, specifically the mound at Kouyunjik near Mosul.
Frederick Charles Cooper’s watercolour drawing titled *Kouyunjick* depicts the site of ancient Nineveh, specifically the mound at Kouyunjik near Mosul. Created in 1850 during Layard’s second excavation expedition (1849–51), the work reflects the archaeological exploration of the region’s ruins. The drawing is part of a series associated with Cooper’s field documentation of the area, with related materials held in the British Museum’s Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities.
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Frederick Charles Cooper painted watercolours of Ottoman-era landmarks he saw in 1849.
Ancient Ruins in the land of Edom above the bed of a valley and Arab Date gardens
Encampment on the River Belus
Jericho Plain of Gilgal, Jordan, Dead Sea, and Mountains of Moab
Egypt and Nubia: Volume II - No. 20, Medinet Abou, Thebes
Bethany
The Ruins of Hierapolis
Eastern Desert, Egypt
Semua
Arabs and their Camels surprised by Cavalry
Distant view of Rouen