Live Auction 16023Interiors including Faringdon House, Oxfordshire
Various Artists and Engravers
Lot 204

Various Artists and Engravers

The Middle-East and Orient: a large collection of 17th and 18th century etchings and engravings, the majority depicting the scenery, types and costume of the Holy Land, Turkey, the Middle-East, India, South-East Asia and China

Closed12 April 2018

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Various Artists and Engravers
The Middle-East and Orient: a large collection of 17th and 18th century etchings and engravings, the majority depicting the scenery, types and costume of the Holy Land, Turkey, the Middle-East, India, South-East Asia and China
etchings and engravings
the album 12 ½ x 19 ¾ in. (31.8 x 50.2 cm.)
the panoramas 11 ¼ x 75 in. (28.5 x 90.5 cm.) and smaller
the framed prints 11 ½ x 14 in. (29.2 x 35.5 cm.) and similar
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Anonymous sale; Christie's South Kensington, 8 October 2015, lot 178.

Specialist note

This large collection of prints comes variously unframed, mounted in an album, and framed. The prints are extracted from 17th and 18th century printed books and atlases including Olfert Dapper's Atlas Chinensis (Amsterdam, 1671), Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie (Amsterdam, 1680) and Awnsham and Churchill's A Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1704-46).