A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Ghawazi, or Dancing Girls.
Drawn on stone by Lemoine [after Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes].
James Madden, London. [1851.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 365 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
A pair of arab dancing girls with finger castanets, a seated man with a riq (an arab tamborine) behind. Published in the 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile' by Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79), a French orientalism who embraced Islam and took the name Edris-Effendi.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 32041] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn on stone by Lemoine [after Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes].
James Madden, London. [1851.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 365 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
A pair of arab dancing girls with finger castanets, a seated man with a riq (an arab tamborine) behind. Published in the 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile' by Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79), a French orientalism who embraced Islam and took the name Edris-Effendi.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 32041] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Portrait of the Late George Lloyd Esq.r.]
Drawn on stone by Lemoine [after Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes].
Print.d by Lemercier, Paris. [n.d., 1848.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, laid on card as issued. Card: 450 x 555mm (17¾ x 22'').
A portrait of botanist George Lloyd of Brynestyn (1815-43) author of 'Travels in the Himalaya Mountains', shown reclining in arab dress. He accompanied his friend the artist Prisse d'Avennes on his travels through Egypt, dying at Thebes when his rifle accidentaly discharged. While dying he managed to write a letter to his father explaining his death. Very fine 1st state with wonderful fresh colour. Published in the 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile' by Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79), a French orientalism who embraced Islam and took the name Edris-Effendi. The book was dedicated to Lloyd.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 50932] £650.00
Drawn on stone by Lemoine [after Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes].
Print.d by Lemercier, Paris. [n.d., 1848.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, laid on card as issued. Card: 450 x 555mm (17¾ x 22'').
A portrait of botanist George Lloyd of Brynestyn (1815-43) author of 'Travels in the Himalaya Mountains', shown reclining in arab dress. He accompanied his friend the artist Prisse d'Avennes on his travels through Egypt, dying at Thebes when his rifle accidentaly discharged. While dying he managed to write a letter to his father explaining his death. Very fine 1st state with wonderful fresh colour. Published in the 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile' by Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79), a French orientalism who embraced Islam and took the name Edris-Effendi. The book was dedicated to Lloyd.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 50932] £650.00