Everett, Sir William

Folio (418 x 295mm.), 43 matt silver prints, possibly by Everett (from 140 x 55mm. to 122 x 180mm., or the reverse), most captioned in ink on the mount, and 14 watercolour drawings (from 87 x 126mm. to 215 x 335mm.), and 5 pages of manuscript notes in ink by Everett, contemporary black diced roan over green cloth boards gilt, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, spine and corners of binding worn

Together with: 18 un-mounted watercolour drawings and sketches by Everett (from 87 x 125mm. to 175 x 360mm.), comprising: 16 drawings with wash or watercolour and 2 pencil sketches

Colonel Sir William Everett KCMG (1844-1908)

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RARE EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS AND WATERCOLOURS OF TURKISH ARMENIA. The photographs include views in and around Tortum, Muş, Bitlis, Lake Van, Diyarbakir, and Harput.

The finely executed drawings are by Everett (1844-1908) who was the British vice-consul (and later consul) at Erzurum from 1879 to 1887. "Everett was a trained draughtsman and had been an instructor of military drawing at the Military Academy at Woolwich from 1870-78. In 1879 he was appointed to the Turco-Bulgarian boundary commission, and in July of the same year was appointed vice-consul at Erzurum. In July 1880 he served on the Turco-Persian frontier commission. During the 1881 famine he was active at Erzurum in administering relief, and from September 1882 until the end of 1887 he was consul in Kurdistan. Everett was attacked at his home in Erzurum in April 1884 and badly wounded in an assassination attempt. In 1888 he resigned from the consular service and returned to England." (ODNB)