Thomas, Margaret

Bazaars, fountains and private courtyards in Damascus come vividly to life in these prints after Margaret Thomas, whose Edwa...

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Bazaars, fountains and private courtyards in Damascus come vividly to life in these prints after Margaret Thomas, whose Edwardian views show the region as an inhabited place rather than only as ruins. An artist, sculptor and travel writer who died in 1929, she illustrated John Kelman's From Damascus to Palmyra, published in 1908. Her merchants and craftspeople appear beside mosques, gates and religious sites, and camels and their drivers lead out along the routes beyond the walls. Palmyrene tombs, carved blocks, milestones and Roman remains add an antiquarian strand, while Baalbek, the Beqaa and the cedars carry the journey into Lebanon.

Bazaars, fountains and private courtyards in Damascus come vividly to life in these prints after Margaret Thomas, whose Edwardian views show the region as an inhabited place rather than only as ruins. An artist, sculptor and travel writer who died in 1929, she illustrated John Kelman's From Damascus to Palmyra, published in 1908. Her merchants and craftspeople appear beside mosques, gates and religious sites, and camels and their drivers lead out along the routes beyond the walls. Palmyrene tombs, carved blocks, milestones and Roman remains add an antiquarian strand, while Baalbek, the Beqaa and the cedars carry the journey into Lebanon.

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