"Cosaque portrant des depeches" and "Mameluk, Porte Etendard"

 

Victor Adam

  1801 - 1866 (biography)

c. 1840  

lithograph after a drawing by C. Vernet 

4 1/2 x 7" (both images) 

unsigned as published 

unknown 

"Lith de Lemercier" in lower center magin; "C Vernet del" and "V. Adam lith." under both images 

 

ivory wove 

published 

Ch. Tilt, London and chez Aumont, Paris 

7751 

$125.00 

The Cosaques (Cossacks) were warriors, settlers, nomads, and marauders who provided an irregular cavalry in the tsarist Russian army. They were predominantly East Slavic people located in Ukraine and in Russia. The Mamelukes, a military and landholding aristocracy, were prominent in Middle Eastern history. They were recruited originally from non-Arab slaves imported to serve various traditional Muslim rulers as soldiers and officials. The Mamelukes eventually assumed power and between the 13th and 19th centuries Mameluke regimes appeared throughout the Muslim world.