Description
This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by considered one of its early explorers is among the most beautiful brand new works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d’Avennes’ monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the one surviving record of many lost artifacts.
”None of Prisse’s contemporaries had the skill or endurance to bring such an endeavor to the sort of brilliant end. He used to be far ahead of his time in his awareness of the vulnerability of the monuments and the desire to offer protection to them and to record them. His were the first reliable drawings of Egyptian architecture and ornaments and the first plans and sections of constructions newly excavated. He returned to Paris [in 1860] with a wealthy harvest of 300 drawings, 400 meters of squeezes, and 150 photographs.” – Maarten J. Raven, Curator of the Egyptian Department, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden.
Now reissued in a to hand new hardbound reference format.