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Views On The Nile From Cairo To The Second Cataract

Print
1843 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lithograph, tinted with one or in some cases two tint stones, from 'Views On The Nile From Cairo To The Second Cataract'. Volume of plates (32), including title page, with descriptive text by Samuel Birch. Quarter bound in blue morocco. Each plate lettered with title. Most plates numbered.
The unillustrated title page states that the views were drawn on stone by George Moore. According to the List Of Plates (which does not include the title page, and in which Pls.10 and 11 appear to be transposed), Pls.3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20 22, 24 28, and 30, are after sketches by Owen Jones, the rest after sketches by Jules Goury.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Views On The Nile From Cairo To The Second Cataract (series title)
  • Valley Of The Tombs Of The Kings From The North. Valley Of The Tombs Of The Kings From The South (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph, tinted with one or in some cases two tint stones
Brief description
Lithograph depicting the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, by George Moore after drawings by Owen Jones and Jules Goury from a volume of plates (32) entitled 'Views On The Nile From Cairo To The Second Cataract', published by Graves and Warmsley. Great Britain, 1843.
Physical description
Lithograph, tinted with one or in some cases two tint stones, from 'Views On The Nile From Cairo To The Second Cataract'. Volume of plates (32), including title page, with descriptive text by Samuel Birch. Quarter bound in blue morocco. Each plate lettered with title. Most plates numbered.
The unillustrated title page states that the views were drawn on stone by George Moore. According to the List Of Plates (which does not include the title page, and in which Pls.10 and 11 appear to be transposed), Pls.3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20 22, 24 28, and 30, are after sketches by Owen Jones, the rest after sketches by Jules Goury.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 54.9 cm
  • Width: 37.1cm
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
Subject depicted
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SP.337:19

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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