Egypt: Travel Sketches from the Orient
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This is a modern edition of a richly illustrated travelogue of Austrian painter, Karl L Libay. He visited Egypt in the 1850s and there completed a remarkable set of aquarel paintings, later transposed into lithographs. The lithographs are accompanied with a text by a prominent Austrian scholar of that time, Alfred von Kremer, later the Austrian deputy in the powers’ committee governing the Egyptian state debt in the late 1870s. The lively scenes are in part correspo… More >>
Egypt: Travel Sketches from the Orient
March 10th, 2010 by iwellbc | Comments Off