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041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Wilkie
245 1 0 $a Sir David Wilkie's Sketches In Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841. Drawn on Stone by Joseph Nash.
246 3 0 $a Sketches in Turkey, Syria and Egypt.
246 3 8 $a Sir David Wilkie's Oriental Sketches.
246 3 # $a Oriental sketches
260 # # $a [London] : $b Published By Messrs Graves and Warmsley, 6, Pall Mall: $c Feby. 1st. 1843 $b Printed By C. Hullmandel.
300 # # $a [27] pl.; $c 520 mm.
500 # # $a The 'Table of Contents' on the verso of the engraved dedication calls for XXVI pl. - including engr. t.-pl. but not including engr. dedic.
505 0 # $a [Engr. t.-pl. (incl. port.), engr. dedic.] - Table of Contents - [Plates].
508 # # $a All plates are signed by David Wilkie (usually as 'David Wilkie ft.').

The book is dedicated by the publishers, Graves and Warmsley, to William John, Marquess of Titchfield (afterwards fifth duke of Portland).
510 0 # $a Sir David Wilkie: drawings and sketches in the Ashmolean Museum, ed. D. Blayney Brown [exhibition catalogue] (1985). M. Twyman, Lithography, 1800-1850 (1970).
520 # # $a Most plates carry a date (1840 or 1841).

The plates reproduce portrait-drawings of local persons and British visitors in Turkey (Constantinople, Smyrna), Lebanon (Beirut) and the Holy Land (Dead Sea, Jordan, Jerusalem). They are all described in the 'Table of Contents' and captioned in the plate. While returning from the Holy Land in 1841 Wilkie died at sea.
563 # # $a 19th-century half red morocco, red paper-covered boards; spine lettered 'Sir David Wilkie's Oriental Sketches'.
600 1 4 $a Wilkie, David
653 # # $a Drawings, British - 19th century
653 # # $a British - Turks - Arabs - Jews - Portraits - Costume - Dress - Turkey - Lebanon - Palestine - Israel - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - 19th century
700 1 # $a Nash, Joseph $d 1809-1878. $e engraver
700 1 # $a Hullmandel, Charles Joseph $e printer
700 1 # $a Portland $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Graves $e publisher
710 2 # $a Graves and Warmsley (London) $e publisher