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Tenison, Louisa
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Sketches in the East. London: Dickinson and Son, 1846
- paper
FIRST EDITION, folio (545 x 370mm.), tinted lithographed title, 29 tinted lithographed plates, original half morocco, some spotting, binding worn, gutta percha perished, contents loose
Literature
Atabey 1208; not in Abbey or Blackmer
Catalogue Note
Lady Tenison visited Damascus during Sir Richard Wood’s consulship in 1841, and amongst the sketches of that city is one drawn in the consul’s house. The other plates depict views of Tripoli, Beirut, Petra, as well as views in Egypt and the Holy Land.