[Armenia]. [Photograph of the Armenian village of Շէփիկ (Shé - Lot 79

[Armenia]. [Photograph of the Armenian village of Շէփիկ (Shépik), Arabkir region]. Silver print mounted on canvas, approx. 49.7 × 39.6 cm Armenia / Ottoman Empire, probably before 1895-1896 Large archival photograph depicting the Armenian village of Shépik (Շէփիկ), in the Arabkir region, mounted on canvas. The photograph appears to have been taken before the events of 1895-1896, when the village church and 35 houses were burnt down in the first waves of violence against the Armenians. In 1915, during the Armenian genocide, the population was forcibly displaced and the village destroyed. A rare photographic record of a village that has now disappeared. Condition: worn, visible surface and edge wear, mounted on canvas.