Views in Egypt, from the original drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer
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Date: 1801
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While Sir Robert Ainslie was England's ambassador to Turkey at Constantinople from 1776 until 1792 he amassed a collection of original drawings by Luigi Mayer. The present work reproduces, by means of vividly hand-colored folio aquatints, views made by Mayer in Egypt.
First published in 1801 as part of Mayer's three-part collection, Views in Egypt, Palestine, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, and later published separately.
102 p., [48] leaves of plates : 49 cm.
Illustrations: 48 color aquatint plates.
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Abbey, Travel 369. Blackmer 1097. Colas 2018. Gay 2145. Lipperheide 1577.
Publisher: London : Printed by Thomas Bensley, for R. Bowyer
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Date Added: 2019-01-08
Ainslie, Robert, Mayer, Luigi, Views in Egypt. London : Printed by Thomas Bensley, for R. Bowyer. 1801.
Ainslie, Robert, Mayer, Luigi, (1801) Views in Egypt. London : Printed by Thomas Bensley, for R. Bowyer.
Ainslie, Robert, Mayer, Luigi, Views in Egypt. London : Printed by Thomas Bensley, for R. Bowyer. 1801.