HAY, ROBERT
ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAIRO.
Year: 1840
Size: 14.7 x 21.2 inches
Year: 1840Size: 37.5 x 54 cm (14.7 x 21.2 inches)
Published by: Tilt and Bogue 1840 and Printed by Hullmandel, Day & Haghe or M. & N. Hanhart.
No. of Illustrations: 30 Fine Hand Colored Lithographs on 29 sheets
The present copy, unlike the Abbey copy, is bound with the letterpress title and twelve leaves of text at the rear, which is very rare.
Folio size, (543 x 370 mm). Lithographed throughout, colored 'additional' title, uncolored dedication to Edward William Lane
30 fine hand colored lithographic views on 29 sheets, by T.S. Boys, T. Bourne, J.C. Bourne and L. Haghe, after Owen B. Carter, C. Laver and Hay
List of Plates:
1. (Lithographed title). 2. The Aquaduct of Cairo and part of Masr - el - Ateekah from the Island of Er - Rodah. 3. Beyn el - Kashreyn (part of the principal street of Cairo) with a public fountain &c. 4. The Ghooreeyeh. 5. Gateway of the Kasr Esh - Shema, an old Roman Fortress. 6. The Great Minaret & part of the Exterior of the Mosque of Tooloon. 7. View of part of the Kal at El - Kebsh. 8. Southern extremity of the Island of Er - Rodah, with Masr -el - Ateekah &c. 9. Mosque of the Sultan Barkook & Fountain of Ismaeel Pasha. 10. View of a Palace of Shereef Bey. 11. The Fountain of the Badaweih. 12. Mosque of El - Guyooshee near Cairo. 13. Bab Zuweyleh. 14. The Mosque of Sultan Hassan - Cairo. 15. Beyn - el - Kasreyn, with the Minaret of the Tomb of Sultan Kalaoon. 16. Bab en Nasr & Walls of Cairo. 17. A Street in Cairo near the Bab - el- Khark. 18. El Geezeh. 19. View of the Jemaleeyeh, near the Wekaleh of Zu - l - Fakar. 20. Joseph's Hall, Cairo. 21. Birket el - Feel 22. Tomb & Fountain of El Mudaffar. 23. View in the Jemaleeyeh with part of the Mosque called the Beybarseeyeh. 24. Khan el - Khaleefee / Khan el - Khaleefee [ 2 differing street scenes]. 25. Slave Market, Cairo. 26. Mosque of El - Barmaweeyeh. 27. Boolak, part 1. 28. Boolak, part 2. 29. Principle Entrance to the Great Mosque El - Azahar. 30. The Fountain of Toosoon Pasha, in the principal street of Cairo.
BINDING: Contemporary half Moroccan over dark brown Moira cloth, title blocked in gilt spine.
A fine, clean copy of Hay's views of Cairo.
Robert Hay was one of the most fascinating figures in early Egyptian archaeology and exploration. He was in Egypt as one of the leading members of an archaeological expedition between 1826 and 1838. [After staying in Cairo where he executed the drawings from which the beautiful plates in the above work made he moved to Qurna.] Among his companions were the artists Arundale Catherwood J. Bonomi the younger and E. W. Lane. Besides Egyptian antiquities presented to the British Museum there are in the department of manuscripts there forty-nine large volumes of archaeological and other drawings made during this expedition and also part of Hay's own diary. In 1840 Hay published a folio volume of 'Illustrations of Cairo' lithographed by J. C. Bourne from drawings by O.B. Carter. Owen Browne Carter (1806-1859) "architect and draughtsman spent most of his life at Winchester where he had a large local practice as an architect. About 1829-30 he traveled to Egypt in company with Mr. Robert Hay of Linplum and resided for some length of time at Cairo. There he executed a large number of architectural and topographical drawings several of which are preserved in the Print Room at the British Museum. A selection of these drawings was lithographed under Carter's superintendence by J.C. Bourne and others and published in 1840 by Mr. Hay in a folio volume entitled 'Illustrations of Cairo"
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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