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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000191

Page Title: Bas-Reliefs

Collection: William Vaughn Tupper Scrapbook Collection

Album: On the Nile. Cairo to Luxor.

Call no.: 4098B.104 v31 (p.8)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie

Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints

Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.

Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph of bas-reliefs. The annotations included on this page describe figures portrayed in the bas-reliefs in the photograph mounted on this page.

Transcription: All sorts of domestic scenes and animals, oxen, gazelles, antelopes, donkeys and a stag, poultry yards with pigeons, cranes, and geese. Every description of house hold employment, weaving, cooking and washing- Rural scenes, milking of cows, reaping, storing and transport of grain, All the trades, masons, carpenters, glassblowers, potters &c,&c. Boats with sails and rowers, boat building and the primitive tools, Sports, hunting the hippopotamus and fishing, every conceiveable experience of human life is here depicted- In some places the painting (bass relief) preserves its original color in others it is gone. the sand of the desert has so coverd it, that it seems more lke a subterranean cavern than a structure above ground.

Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image illegible.

BPL Department: Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.
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