'Figures at the Sweet Waters of Europe. Constantinople', 1854 (c)

Watercolour by 2nd Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-86), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).

Brightly dressed women wearing white veils seated on grass around trees, two bearded Zouaves wearing turbans and two black soldiers wearing red fezes stand, with hills in the background.

From an album of watercolour paintings and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, relating to the Crimean War (1854-1856).

Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.