Greece and the Levant: A Private Library

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Lot 88
  • 88

# - Greek Revolution Portraits.

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of plates titled thus on upper cover. c.1830s
10 wood-engraved illustrations by Brugnot, Chevauchet, La Coste, Loutrel ?and others after Schlesinger, De Moraine, Guerin ?and others, each within decorative border, coloured by hand, loose in a nineteenth-century calf portfolio, decorated in gilt and blind and lettered on upper cover "Greek Revolution Portraits I"

Catalogue Note

The plates, measuring 294 x 200mm., are as follows: Miaulis; Costantino Canari; Santorre di Santa Rosa; Mahmud II; Ibrahim Bascià; Maurocordato; Demetrio Ipsilanti; Marco Botzari; Karaïskaki; Tomba di Santorre di Santa Rosa.