Teheran. Vue preise de la route de Casbinn. (Perse)
Paris: Pierre-Bertrand, c.1854. Notes: In 1846, the French government decided to send a mission to Persia, an expedition, led by the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell, to carry out further investigations. Laurens, a young artist who had studied in the studio of the painter Paul Delaroche, was employed to record the course of their journey in a series of images that, after his return in 1849, were used to illustrate Hommaire de Hell's Voyage en Turquie et en Perse (4 vols and atlas, 1854-60). Despite the rigours of the journey and an attack of fever, Laurens filled several sketch-books with his drawings of the people and landscapes they encountered., Image Size : 312x440 (mm), 12.28x17.32 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 395x570 (mm), 15.55x22.44 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Views Asia Middle East Iran;. Very Good. Item #P2901
Notes: In 1846, the French government decided to send a mission to Persia, an expedition, led by the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell, to carry out further investigations. Laurens, a young artist who had studied in the studio of the painter Paul Delaroche, was employed to record the course of their journey in a series of images that, after his return in 1849, were used to illustrate Hommaire de Hell's Voyage en Turquie et en Perse (4 vols and atlas, 1854-60). Despite the rigours of the journey and an attack of fever, Laurens filled several sketch-books with his drawings of the people and landscapes they encountered., Image Size : 312x440 (mm), 12.28x17.32 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 395x570 (mm), 15.55x22.44 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Views Asia Middle East Iran;.
Price: $2,500.00