Vuë du Vieux Caire, vis-a-vis le Mikkias, au milieu du Calis, vers Boulac.
[Etched by Carl Marcus Tuscher after Frederick Ludvig Norden.] [Copenhagen, 1755.] Coloured etching. 225 x 415mm, 9 x 16¼". A view of Cairo from the Nile, from Frederik Ludvig Norden's 'Voyage d'Égypte et de Nubie', with the Mokkias, a nilometer built by the Saracens. Norden, a Danish captain, travelled down the Nile through Egypt to Sudan in 1737-8; his account was published over a decade after his death with engravings after his drawings made during the tour.
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Perspective du Bourg Deir Etün, à une demi-lieüe au delà du Vieux Caire.
[Etched by Carl Marcus Tuscher after Frederick Ludvig Norden.] [Copenhagen, 1755.] Coloured etching. 225 x 415mm, 9 x 16¼". A view of a town near Cairo from Frederik Ludvig Ludvig Norden's 'Voyage d'Égypte et de Nubie'. Norden, a Danish captain, travelled down the Nile through Egypt to Sudan in 1737-8; his account was published over a decade after his death with engravings taken from his drawings made on his tour.
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(£168.00 incl.VAT)