Makryjannis, Général--Zographos, Panayotis.

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Description

Histoire picturale de la guerre de l'indépendance hellénique. Geneva: Editions d'Art Boissonas and Paris: Librairie Jean Budry & Cie., [1926]
paper

First edition, number 44 [of 140 copies], large oblong folio (515 x 665mm.), 24 coloured facsimile plates after Zographos, with a livraison of descriptive text by Frédéric Boissonas and Johannes Gennadius in printed wrappers (slightly stained) containing 3 photogravure plates, and another related publication (dated 1966) inserted, loose as issued in original cloth-backed portfolio, printed label showing the Greek flag on upper cover, ties, a few plates very slightly browned at outer edge of blank margin (due to earlier framing), text spotted, covers somewhat worn

Catalogue Note

This work is a facsimile of the celebrated series of paintings commissioned by General Makryjannis sometime during the 1830s from the painter Panayotis Zographos. The subjects vividly depict episodes from the Greek war of independence, the last being a memorial list of the philhellenes active in Greece during the war.