Troodos Mountains from Bairactar Bastion Nicosia. February 1882.

English, as on the record

The Sinclair was ADC to Dir Garnet Wolseley in 1878 and remained in Cyprus for some years. He was an amateur painter who made a series of watercolours of Cyprus, sold with the contents of his family home Lady Place in Sutton Courtenay in 1990. The watercolour portrays the Constanza bastion of the walls of Nicosia with the Bairaktar Mosque built in the 18th century over the tomb of the standard bearer who was killed during the siege of Nicosia. The flag and standard were laid on top of his gravestone. Two figures of Turkish Cypriot women, covered in white from head to toe, seem to be walking away from the mosque. Being on raised ground, it affords a view of the Troodos mountain range

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

Inscribed on back: Troodos Mountains from Bairactar Bastion Nicosia. February 1882