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Views in Egypt, from the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his Embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer: by MAYER, Luigi
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Book description: London: R. Bowyer, 1801. First edition. Large folio (18 1/2 x 13 inches). [iv], 102, [2, plate list] pp. Paper watermarked 1794 and 1801. Complete with all forty-eight hand-colored aquatints of scenes in Egypt. Contemporary half straight-grain red morocco, gilt spine lettering and devices. Some wear to board edges and corners. A few plates with some offsetting (as is usual). Overall, an exceptionally clean copy and in the original binding. "Luigi Mayer (d. 1803), a watercolourist and draughtsman, is renowned as the most accurate delineator of the Near East before David Roberts. Despite the success of MayerÕs publications, very little is known about his life. He is known to have been born in Germany, and lived for several years in Rome where he was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), one of the finest artists of his day, and well-known for his etchings of ancient and contemporary architecture in Rome. Mayer was employed by a British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, Sir Robert Ainslie, to produce drawings in Asia Minor and the Near East... [Thomas] Milton was a printmaker and topographical draughtsman, and was the great-nephew of the poet John Milton, and the son of another John Milton (fl. 1770), a minor marine artist. He worked mainly as a line engraver, and produced plates for other lavish illustrated books " (Reading Univeristy). This work, along with Mayer's other two works on the area, Views in Palestine and Views of the Ottoman Empire, were all reprinted as one book in 1804. Abbey Travel, 369; Blackmer 1097; Colas 2018
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