Voyage dans le Levant / par M. le Cte. de Forbin.

Main entry:

Forbin, comte de (Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste), 1777-1841.

Title & Author:

Voyage dans le Levant / par M. le Cte. de Forbin.

Publication:

Paris : Imprimerie Royale, 1819.

Description:

[8], 132 pages, 80 leaves of plates : illustrations (lithographs, acquatints, engravings), 2 plans ; 71 cm (folio)

Notes:
Half-title: Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818.
Numbered both as pages and leaves: [4], 66 leaves.
Naveri, L. Greece and the Levant, 614
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 1089
Tobler, T. Bibliographia geographica Palaestinae, 144-145

Summary:

Travel account by the count de Forbin of a journey to the Middle East undertaken in 1817 and 1818. As the newly-appointed director of museums for France, Forbin set off on a year-long trip to Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt commissioned with acquiring antiquities for the Louvre. Forbin's account (also published separately as an octavo volume) is accompanied by 80 numbered plates: 70 are lithographs by Godefroy Englemann after such artist as Hippolyte Lecomte, Constant Bourgeois, Louis Hersent, Alphonse de Seynes, Carle Vernet, and Jean Lubin Vauzelle; 2 are engravings by Nicolas Auguste Leisnier of plans of the Catacomb de Milo and cross-section of one of the pyramids at Giza, and church of the Sepulchre in Jerusalem; and 8 are sepia aquatints executed by Philibert-Louis Debucourt of scenes by A. Forbin. According to Leonora Navari, Greece and the Levant : the catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer collection of books and manuscripts, ""Forbin's was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoléon's 'Description de l'Egypte' or Denon's 'Voyage." Plates depict landscape views, buildings, mosques, ruins, local scenes, and costumes.

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Subject:

Forbin, comte de (Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste), 1777-1841 Travel Middle East.
Forbin, comte de (Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste), 1777-1841.
Middle East ‡v Pictorial works.
Voyages and travels.
Voyages.
journeys.
Travel.
Middle East Description and travel.
Middle East ‡x Antiquities ‡v Pictorial works.
Middle East.

Form/genre:

Lithographs.
Aquatints.
Lithographs France Paris 1819.
Aquatints France Paris 1819.
Engravings France Paris 1819.

Added entries:

Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839, lithographer.
Leisnier, Nicolas Auguste, 1787-1857, engraver.
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851, artist.
Debucourt, Philibert-Louis, 1755-1832, etcher.
Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857, artist.
Baltard, Louis-Pierre, 1764-1846, artist.
Bidauld, Jean-Joseph-Xavier, 1758-1846, artist.
Bourgeois, Ct. (Constant), 1767-1841, artist.
Bouteiller, Louise, 1783-1828, artist.
Bouton, Charles-Marie, 1781-1853, artist.
Fragonard, Alexandre, 1780-1850, artist.
Granger, Jean-Pierre, 1779-1840, artist.
Hersent, Louis, 1777-1860, artist.
Isabey, Jean-Baptiste, 1767-1855, artist.
Le Gros, S.J., artist.
Seynes, Alp. de (Alphonse de), -1844, artist.
Thiénon, Claude, 1772-1846, artist.
Vauzelle, Jean Lubin, 1776- artist.
Vernet, Carle, 1758-1836, artist.
Imprimerie royale (France), printer.

Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818.

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Location: Library cage m 21508
Call No.: ID:87-B852
Status: Available

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