Original Antique Maps and Prints. Antique Master Print-NUBIA-EARLY LITHOGRAPHY-EGYPT-Rifaud-Edouard-1836. Description: This original plate originates from:’Voyage en Egypte, en Nubie, et lieux circonvoisins, depuis 1805 jusqu’en 1828. This work first appeared in installments and was to contain five text volumes and 300 plates. The text never appeared and how many plates were published is not certain. A collection of 223 plates is known. The plates depict a wide variety of subjects: temples, hieroglyphics, tomb findings, boats (dows), jewelry, pottery, but also fishes, plants, etc. 174; Graesse VI, 122; Brunet IV, 1203. Very rare, these lithographs were never published. Artists and Engravers: Made by’Edouard’ after’Jean-Jacques Rifaud’. Nothing concerning this artist could be found. Rifaud spent many years in Egypt carrying out excavations. There he became the right-hand man of Bernardino Drovetti, Napoleon’s Proconsul in Egypt. He helped Drovetti amassing a vast quantity of Egyptian antiquities, now i. In Turin, Paris and Berlin. Subject: Antique Master Print, untitled. Different activities of Nubians. Condition: Fair, given age. Ample margins, some staining. Small tear in right bottom corner. Please study scan carefully. Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 45 x 57 cm. The image size is ca. 37.5 x 49 cm. Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 17.7 x 22.4 inch. 14.8 x 19.3 inch. Medium: Lithograph on wove paper. ThePrintsCollector – LaurentiusOldMasterPrints Frans Laurentius Margo van Latum – van Dongen, Frank van Latum Located in Zeeland (Noord-Brabant) – The Netherlands. GO TO OUR STORE and explore our huge collection of fine antique maps and prints. FIND SIMILAR ITEMS IN OUR STORE. Visit our Store: we would like to invite you to review similar items in our Store or to browse through all other items in our Store. We are confident that you will find very special unique antique maps and prints in our Store. It is our privilege to have you as a customer. Combined orders are possible!