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Creator:
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Title(s):
Illustrations of the highlands of Aethiopia / by Sir William C. Harris ...
Additional Title(s):
Highlands of Aethiopia
Published/Created:
London : Lithographed and published by Dickinson and Son, 114, New Bond Street, [1845].
Physical Description:
[29] leaves, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2022 23
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The eighteen plates ... marked with an asterisk are from original drawings made on the spot by Sir William C. Harris. The remaining eight, not so marked, are from paintings made by Herr Martin Bernatz."--Page [4].
Place of publication appears at end of imprint.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 291
BAC Folio A 2022 23: The Abbey copy. Plates are hand-colored. Text stitched but unbound, plates enclosed in original red cloth portfolio, lettered in gilt on front within ornamental gilt panel: Highlands of Aethiopia.
Subject Terms:
Ethiopia -- Description and travel.
Ethiopia -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Hand coloring.
Lithographs.
Contributors:
Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802–1878, illustrator.
Dickinson and Son, publisher.
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