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Chambre Historique de Turkmantchay (Persia)
Chambre Historique de Turkmantchay (Persia)
Dessine d'apres nature et lith. par Jules Laurens. Imp. par Lemercier r. de Seine, 57, Paris.
Publie par Pierre Bertrand Editeur. [Paris, 1853-59.]
Tinted lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 295 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼").
A dilapidated room in Torkamanchay, a Azerbaijani town in northern Persia, with two locals and a European. Joseph Auguste Jules Laurens (1825 - 1901) travelled with the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell on a scientific journey to Turkey and Persia, making over a thousand drawings of the sites, costumes and people he encountered. After Hommaire died of cholera in 1848 Laurens sent his notes back to his widow in Paris who completed a full account of their travels, 'Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, exe´cute´ par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les anne´es 1846, 1847 et 1848', containing many lithographs by Laurens.
[Ref: 35577]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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