Passage From The Second To the Third Gallery In The Great Pyramid. [Hand-Coloured Aquatint]

Luigi Meyer

Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery., London., 1802

About this Item

Published 1802. This hand coloured aquatint by Luigi Meyer is in exceptionally good condition with the image clean and fresh, unfaded, never been framed. Dust and some light creasing in the white, Several closed tears to base line, colouring fresh. On "J. Whatman" type cartridge paper. Title and legend at base line with artist and engravers imprint, When framed the creasing will not be seen. T. Milton engraved the plate. Measures 45 x 30 cm approx. Genuine 1802. Colouring ALL genuine, NOT modern or later colouring. *Luigi Meyer (1755¿1803) was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire. He was a close friend of Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, a British ambassador to Turkey between 1776 and 1792, and the bulk of his paintings and drawings during this period were commissioned by Ainslie.[1] He travelled extensively through the Ottoman Empire between 1776 and 1794, and became well known for his sketches and paintings of panoramic landscapes of ancient sites from the Balkans to the Greek Islands, Turkey and Egypt, particularly ancient monuments and the Nile. Many of the works were amassed in Ainslie's collection, which was later presented to the British Museum, providing a valuable insight into the Middle East of that period.

Seller Inventory # 00919

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Passage From The Second To the Third Gallery In The Great Pyramid. [Hand-Coloured Aquatint]
• Publisher: R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery., London.
• Publication Date: 1802
• Binding: Loose as Issued.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archeology and Excavation