Egypt Travel Sketches from the Orient (Karl Ludwig Libay)

Name: Egypt Travel Sketches from the Orient (Karl Ludwig Libay)
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ISBN: 9788086277509

ISBN-10: 808627750X

ISBN-13: 9788086277509

Edition: N/A

Authors: Dusan Magdolen, Lucie Storchovï¿½

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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 corresponding to the contemporary vogue represented, amongst others, by David Roberts, but in part they have an original setting and mise-en-scne. The text is a unique testimony to the period's vision of Egypt, her history and especially…

Book details

List price: $90.00
Publisher: Czech Institute of Egyptology
Publication date: 9/20/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 11.81" wide x 8.46" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.542
Language: English