Voyage Pittoresque A Travers L'Isthme De Suez

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Artist/Maker	Lemercier (printers) Edouard Riou (artist) Ciceri (lithographer)
Place of origin	Paris (printed)

Volume of plates (22) after E.Riou entitled 'Voyage Pittoresque A Travers L'Isthme De Suez'. Bound in publisher's decorated cloth.
Frontispiece displays a portrait of M. De Lesseps. Plates are lithographed with two or three tint stones, most coloured by hand. Most plates lettered 'Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris. Plates I XX'. Signed 'Riou', lettered 'Riou pinxit', and with name of lithographer, and numbered. Plates lithographed by Eugene Ciceri, unless otherwise stated.

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Category	Prints
Object type	Print
Title	Voyage Pittoresque A Travers L'Isthme De Suez (series title)
Materials and techniques	Hand-coloured lithographs Paper Lithography Hand-Colouring
Brief description	Hand-coloured lithographs after drawings by Edouard Riou, from a volume of plates (22) entitled 'Voyage Pittoresque A Travers L'Isthme De Suez'. French School, 1869.
Physical description	Volume of plates (22) after E.Riou entitled 'Voyage Pittoresque A Travers L'Isthme De Suez'. Bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Frontispiece displays a portrait of M. De Lesseps. Plates are lithographed with two or three tint stones, most coloured by hand. Most plates lettered 'Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris. Plates I XX'. Signed 'Riou', lettered 'Riou pinxit', and with name of lithographer, and numbered. Plates lithographed by Eugene Ciceri, unless otherwise stated.
Dimensions	Size of covers height: 41.2cm Width: 58.1cm Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line	Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Subjects depicted	Canals Lesseps
Places depicted	Suez Egypt
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	SP.505A

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1009331/voyage-pittoresque-a-travers-listhme-print-edouard-riou/

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