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Views In Kairo, Tilt and Bogue

Print
1840 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Day & Haghe (printers)
M. & N. Hanhart (printers)
Tilt & Bogue (publishers)
Owen Carter (artist)
John Cooke Bourne (engraver)
Place of origin
Britain (printed)

Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, depicting a view in Cairo, Egypt, from a volume of plates (30), including title page, with descriptive text. Quarter bound in blue morocco. Each plate inscribed or lettered with title. Most plates lettered with artist's names, and variously with lithographer's and printer's names.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Historic Cairo
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Views In Kairo, Tilt and Bogue (series title)
  • Illustrations Of Cairo (popular title)
  • Bab Zuweyleh (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone
Paper
Lithography
Printing
Brief description
Lithograph depicting the Bab Zuweila gate in Cairo, drawn by O. B. Carter for a volume of plates (30) by Robert Hay entitled 'Views In Kairo, Tilt and Bogue', lithographed and printed variously by C. Hullmandel, or Day & Haghe, or M. & N. Hanhart. Great Britain, 1840.
Physical description
Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, depicting a view in Cairo, Egypt, from a volume of plates (30), including title page, with descriptive text. Quarter bound in blue morocco. Each plate inscribed or lettered with title. Most plates lettered with artist's names, and variously with lithographer's and printer's names.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 55.3 cm
  • Width: 37.8 cm
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
City Gates
Places depicted
Cairo
Egypt
Bab
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SP.312:13

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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