Edith Cheesman

Florence Edith Cheesman (1877–1964) was a British artist and author, noted for her watercolours of Arabian birdlife and for producing a series of Iraqi postage stamps and postcards featuring wildlife.

Her brother was Colonel Robert Ernest Cheesman, a British a military officer, explorer, author and ornithologist.

In the early 1920s, her brother served as the Private Secretary to Sir Percy Cox during his term as the High Commissioner of Iraq.

Konody, writing in the Daily Mail, expressed the hope that Cheesman’s “picturesque views of Mesopotamia” would not be used as propaganda to support Britain’s continued occupation of the land.

A manuscript entitled Roaming round Rhodesia with a paint-box: off the beaten track, well-illustrated with original sketches and paintings, and many photographs, is now part of the Campbell Collections at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

[10] The definitive stamps were denominated in the currency of the Administration, the Indian anna and rupee,[10] and Cheesman designed the 0.5A, 1A, 4A, 6A, 8A, 2R, 5R and 10R values.