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Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "The Luxor"; inscribed on mount in pen and blue ink, lower left: " D3016/ William Callow 1812-1908 | 1833 | "In December of this year [1833] the boat containing the | Luxor, having been towed from Egypt to Havre and up | the Seine to Paris, was moored close to the Place de la | Concorde, when the obelisk was handed on a staging | erected for the pourpose, to the pedestal on which it now | stands. I made a sketch of the boat containing the | obelisk on the spot. | William Callow: Autobiograph, Ch II | LGD"; inscribed in pen with blue ink, on mount label: "di[t?]: William Callow autobiograph. Ch II | Walker's Quarterly, No. 22 [?], William Callow P48."; in letter press, lower right: WILLIAM CALLOW, RWS, 1812-1878 | "The Luxor", Paris - Decr. 1833 | "I made a sketch of the boat containing | the obelisk on the spot". | FROM |WALKER'S GALLERIES LTD. | 118 NEW BOND STREET. | LONDON, W. I. | MAYfair 0722"; inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "French Luxor. 1833 | William Callow"