Views in Egypt (plates)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Luigi Mayer

Title

Views in Egypt (plates)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1801

Medium

Book with forty aquatints, with hand-coloring, in black on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Book, closed: 47.3 × 33.5 × 2.2 cm (18 5/8 × 13 1/4 × 7/8 in.); Book, open: 47.3 × 67.5 × 4.5 cm (18 5/8 × 26 5/8 × 1 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne

Reference Number

1940.639

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