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

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

Paris : Imprimerie Royale, 1819.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Localisation: Bibliothèque cage m 21508
Cote: ID:87-B852
Statut: Disponible