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Portrait of the Late George Lloyd Esq.

Portrait of the Late George Lloyd Esq.

Drawn on stone by Lemoine. Print.d by Lemercier, Paris.
Madden & Malcolm_London & Paris. [1848.]
Handcoloured lithograph. Sheet: 420 x 350mm (16½ x 13¾"). Small tears in bottom edge.
A portrait of the Welsh explorer and botanist George Lloyd (1815-1843) dressed in Arab costume and reclining on a rug. Lloyd accompanied Emile Prisse d'Avennes during part of his travels through Egypt, and Prisse dedicated his text 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile', from which this plate is the frontispiece dedicated, to Lloyd as he was killed in an accident with a firearm whilst in Thebes in 1843.
[Ref: 41348]  £280.00


 

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