19Th Century Watercolour Suez Canal Group Of Bedouin Tribesman With Camels

Victorian watercolour painting showing view of the Suez Canal in Egypt with a group of Bedouin tribesman with Camels travelling along the bank shoreline by Henry Andrew Harper.
Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this Bendouin tribal masterpiece.
Title “Bedouin Tribesmen on the bank of the Suez Canal Egypt" by Henry Andrew Harper C1872.
Subject view of 6 Bedouin Tribesmen, with 3 riding camels and 3 others walking along the fine course sandy banks of the Suez canal in Egypt all together.
A nice easy to display size with the frame being 39 cm wide and 28 cm high.
Circa 1872 late 19th century Victorian era.
A fascinating rare 19th century era scene of Tribesman Bedoiun as they travel along the known Suez canal's bank shoreline, with some on camels & others walking along, dressed in typical tribal dress clothing, the tribesman seen towards the rear can be seen to be carrying water and food, above with mainly clear light sky. A further interesting feature is that this painting was only painted around a few years after the Suez canal was completed in 1869.
Medium watercolour on paper backed with board with a front glass protective cover.
Set in a later gilt frame.
Titled and signed by the known British listed artist Henry Andrew Harper in the lower bottom corners & inscribed verso.
Artist biography Henry Andrew Harper British | 1835 - 1900 Henry Andrew Harper a known British 19th Century artist who was born in the year 1835 in Barnham Bedfordshire. Harper's paintings have been exhibited & sold at art galleries & auction houses like Christie’s around the world, the current highest sold price is $39,855 US Dollars. Harper is also known to have exhibited a selection of his paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts. During the early 1870s he visited Egypt accompanied with his friend & patron William Ward The First Earl of Dudley, Harper painted scenes of what he witnessed in person whilst on the trip. He died in 1900 at Westerham Hall in Kent.
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (/ˈbɛduɪn/;[16] Arabic: بَدْو, romanized: badū, singular بَدَوِي badawī) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq). The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert but spread across the rest of the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa after the spread of Islam. The English word bedouin comes from the Arabic badawī, which means "desert-dweller", and is traditionally contrasted with ḥāḍir, the term for sedentary people. Bedouin territory stretches from the vast deserts of North Africa to the rocky ones of the Middle East. They are sometimes traditionally divided into tribes, or clans (known in Arabic as ʿašāʾir; عَشَائِر or qabāʾil قبائل), and historically share a common culture of herding camels, sheep and goats. The vast majority of Bedouins adhere to Islam, although there are some fewer numbers of Christian Bedouins present in the Fertile Crescent.
Highly sought after due to the subject matter.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Front painting surface is in good overall order. Having various foxing staining, craquelure in areas. Set in a later frame which has various general wear, scuffs, some chips, losses in areas commensurate with usage & age.
International buyers worldwide shipping is available please ask for a quote.
Checkout our exciting other available Fine Arts, antiques & collectibles in our shop gallery.

Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (28 cm)
Wide (39 cm)
Depth thickness of frame (1.2 cm)