Monuments Égyptiens, Bas-Reliefs, Peintures, Inscriptions, Etc., D'Après Les Dessins Exécutés Sur Les Lieux Par E. Prisse d'Avennes, Pour Faire Suite Aux Monuments De L'Egypte Et De La Nubie De Champollion-le-Jeune - Ouvrage publié sous les Auspices De M. Le Comte De Salvandy, Ministre de l'Instruction Publique.
There are bis pl. 15, 26 (as called for in the Explication Des Planches). Each pl. is protected by a guard-sheet. Plate 2 is misnumbered as 3; plate 16 is misnumbered as 17.
Contents
[Front. (add. engr. t.pl.), t.p.] - Préface - Monuments Égyptiens D'Après Les Dessins Exécutés Sur Les Lieux, Par E. Prisse d'Avennes. Explication Des Planches - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed as drawn by E. Prisse, apart from pl. 19, which is signed as by G. LLoyd. All but one are signed as lithographed by Hauger, F. Lepelle, G. Barry or Maurice; pl. 46 is not signed by a lithographer. Most are signed as printed by Kaeppelin & Cie., but the frontispiece and plates 46-50 are signed as printed by Lemercier.
References
A. Siliotti, Egypt lost and found (1998), p.266-81.
Summary Note
Prisse d'Avennes was best known as an epigrapher, and made a significant contribution to the recording of the monuments of Egypt. In 1845 he discovered the Table of Kings at Carnac; which he removed and took to France. He went on to write the first separate history of Egyptian art.
Eight plates are printed in colour - the frontispiece and plates 10, 22, 46-50.
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco; spines gilt-decorated with hieroglyphs and lettered 'Monuments De L'Egypte Et De La Nubie. Suite De Prisse D'Avennes. R.A.'
Subject
Monuments - Antiquities, Egyptian - Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian - Inscriptions - Art, Egyptian - Egypt - History
French - Archaeological expeditions - Egypt - 19th century
Art history - Epigraphy - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - France - 19th century