Improvisateur Sur Une Place Publique.Derviches Nomades. (Azerbaidjan.) [Subtitle of upper image.]
Dessine d'apres nature et lith. par Jules Laurens. Imp. par Lemercier, r. de Seine 57, Paris.
Publie par Pierre-Bertrand, Editeur. [n.d., c.1859.]
Lithograph, images each 202 x 270mm. Water stain lower right corner.
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, exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les anne´es 1846, 1847 et 1848', containing many lithographs by Laurens.
[Ref: 7703] £160.00
Publie par Pierre-Bertrand, Editeur. [n.d., c.1859.]
Lithograph, images each 202 x 270mm. Water stain lower right corner.
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, exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les anne´es 1846, 1847 et 1848', containing many lithographs by Laurens.
[Ref: 7703] £160.00