Name: Antique Master Print-MOSQUE-HASSAN-CAIRE-STREET VIEW-Benoist-Cassas-c.1799
SKU: PICTURA-08025
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Antique Master Print-MOSQUE-HASSAN-CAIRE-STREET VIEW-Benoist-Cassas-c.1799

€175.00

‘D’JAM’I, OU MOSQUEE CATHEDRALE, DE HHA?AN, AU CAIRE. VUE DE LA PRINCIPALE PORTE DE LA MOSQUEE.’

– Architectural view of the monumental entrance to the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo. Detailed figures of market activity, traders, and street life animate the square before the building.

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Description

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 30.5 x 46.2 cm (12.01 x 18.19 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 40.2 cm. (9.65 x 15.83 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Minor browning at uncut margins; Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CAIRO MOSQUE, ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE, SULTAN HASSAN, LOUIS FRAN?OIS CASSAS, VOYAGE PITTORESQUE, BENOIST ENGRAVING, 18TH CENTURY EGYPT, ORIENTALIST PRINT | PCO-B8-32

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phenicie, de la Palestine et de la Basse Egypte’ (Paris, ca. 1799-1800), Vol. 3, plate 66.

Reference: Brunet I, 1616; Ebert 3636; Thieme/Becker VI, 126; Graesse II, 62.

Biography engraver: M.A. Benoist (active late 18th?early 19th century), French engraver known for his work on architectural and travel illustration plates after Cassas and other contemporaries.

Biography artist: Louis-Francois Cassas (1756-1827), French artist, architect, and antiquarian. His travels through the Levant and Egypt resulted in numerous detailed drawings of ancient and Islamic architecture, published in his Voyage Pittoresque.