Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.

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Creator:: Tobin, Catherine, Lady
Title(s):: Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.
Additional Title(s):: Shadows of the East
Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs
Published/Created:: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.
Physical Description:: xiv, 256, ix p., [21] leaves of plates : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS48 .T63 1855+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3580573
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Tinted lithographs after John Brenan and Col. R.C. Crawford. Plates printed by Day & Son.
"Outline of journey."--P. [vii]-xii.
Includes bibliographical references.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-tooled red cloth; patterned endpapers.
Subject Terms:: Egypt -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Greece -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Middle East -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Palestine -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Syria -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Turkey -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:: Travel literature.
Lithographs.
Contributors:: Brenan, John, 1796–1865, ill.
Crawford, Robert Fitzgerald, 1809–1895, ill.
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Contents of the plates: Vincenzo Belluta (Dragoman)
"Clothilde"
A Ghawázee
Assouan
Green Convent, Mount Sinai
Interior of Green Convent, Mount Sinai
Sheikh of the Desert
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
Crypt of Holy Sepulchre
Dead Sea
Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth
Mount Tabor
Souk Barrada
Ruins of Eastern Portico, Baalbed
"Sweet Waters of Europe"
Entrance to the Black Sea
Athens
Map of Route
Map of Nile
Map of Palestine.

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