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Voyage en Egypte du duc de Luynes] - Joseph Frédéric DEBACQ (1800-1892) Egypt: three views of villages, at Giza and Abu Krarvi. Black stone; mounted on the same album tab 17 x 24 cm; 17 x 24.5 cm; 17 x 23 cm. Situated and dated: "Ghizey, fellah village north of Terranak / left bank of the Nile Lower Egypt / January 26, 1842"; "Fellah village north of Abu Krarvi / left bank of the Nile Lower Egypt / January 25, 1842" - Honoré D'ALBERT, duc de Luynes (1802-1867) Desert landscape with a rocky plateau in the distance - Joseph Frédéric DEBACQ (1800-1892) View of a palm grove - Joseph Frédéric DEBACQ (1800-1892) The bed of a wadi with a village of fellah in the distance. Black stone 15 x 24,5 cm ; 11,5 x 15,8 cm ; 19 x 24,5 cm. The three drawings mounted on the same album tab So 6 drawings on two tabs. In 1842, the 8th Duke of Luynes, a brilliant patron of the arts, philanthropist, epigraphist, and archaeologist, walked the banks of the Nile with his friend the architect Debacq, following in the footsteps of the French Institute of Egypt, which had been closed in 1801. Several years before Maxime du Camp returned with his arms full of photographs of this civilization sunk in the sands, the two acolytes brought back some interesting drawings from their journey.
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