Plates Illustrative Of The Researches And Operations Of G. Belzoni In Egypt And Nubia
Print
1820 (first published)
1820 (first published)
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Print depicting a section Of the Tomb Of Samethis In Thebes, a plate from the 'Researches And Operations Of G. Belzoni In Egypt And Nubia'. Volume of plates (44) on 34 sheets, with descriptive text. Quarter bound in black morocco, with label lettered with title and price, pasted on front cover. The volume contains prints made in a variety of techniques, lithographs, lithographs coloured by hand, etchings coloured by hand, soft ground etchings coloured by hand, etchings and aquatints. Most plates lettered with title and numbered. Many plates lettered with name(s) of artist(s). Each page lettered variously with the publisher's name and address.
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| Brief description | Print entitled 'Section Of The Tomb Of Samethis In Thebes. Discovered and Opened by G.Belzoni, 1818', from 'Plates Illustrative Of The Researches And Operations Of G. Belzoni In Egypt And Nubia' published by John Murray. Volume of plates (44) on 34 sheets, with descriptive text. Great Britain, 1820. |
| Physical description | Print depicting a section Of the Tomb Of Samethis In Thebes, a plate from the 'Researches And Operations Of G. Belzoni In Egypt And Nubia'. Volume of plates (44) on 34 sheets, with descriptive text. Quarter bound in black morocco, with label lettered with title and price, pasted on front cover. The volume contains prints made in a variety of techniques, lithographs, lithographs coloured by hand, etchings coloured by hand, soft ground etchings coloured by hand, etchings and aquatints. Most plates lettered with title and numbered. Many plates lettered with name(s) of artist(s). Each page lettered variously with the publisher's name and address. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Each page lettered variously 'London. Published by J.Murray, 1820' or 'London, Published 1820, by John Murray, Albermarle Street'.
Some pages lettered variously 'C.Hullmandel's Lithography' or 'Printed by C.Hullmandel'.
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
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| Bibliographic reference | BELZONI, Giovanni Battista (1778 1823)
Italian, born in Padua.
Leading excavator, explorer, and draughtsman in Egypt. Travelled in Europe, and came to England in 1803, where he worked as a Strong Man in Sadlers Wells Theatre. In Malta, 1815, he met an agent of Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt who suggested that he could use his knowledge of hydraulics there. Subsequently worked for Henry Salt in Egypt as engineer and excavator. His achievements included clearing the Temple of Ramesses II (Abu Simbel), discovering six tombs in the Valley of the Kings, and opening the Pyramid of Chephren (Giza). He left Egypt in 1819; held an exhibition at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1821-22, and published various accounts of his discoveries. He died during an expedition to find the source of the river Niger the following year. |
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| Accession number | SP.94:40 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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