Images of the Orient - Egypt & Nubia

副标题: The Lithographs of David Roberts (1796 ~ 1864)

ISBN: 9789775089601

出版社: The Palm Press

出版年: 2007

页数: 72

定价: 20 PE

内容简介

This book takes you on a journey through Egypt in the mid 19th Century when this country was exotic and largely unknown to westerners. A Craze for all things oriental ws in full swing as David Roberts organised an artistic pilgrimage to Egypt and the Holy Land.

The reproductions chosen for this volume are images taken from a Royal Subscription Edition housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo and printed here with their permission.