Lot No. 44: HAY, ROBERT

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAIRO.

Medium: Printed Books
Year: 1840
Size: 21.2 x 14.7 inches

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HAY, ROBERT

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAIRO.

Year: 1840

Size: 54 x 37.5 cm (21.2 x 14.7 inches)

30 fine hand colored lithographs

Published by: Tilt and Bogue 1840. Folio size, (543 x 370 mm). Lithographed throughout, colored 'additional' title, uncolored dedication to Edward William Lane

30 fine hand colored lithographic views on 29 sheets, by T.S. Boys, T. Bourne, J.C. Bourne and L. Haghe, after Owen B. Carter, C. Laver and Hay

printed by Hullmandel, Day & Haghe or M. & N. Hanhart.
Contemporary half Moroccan over dark brown moiré cloth, title blocked in gilt spine.
A fine, clean copy of Hay's views of Cairo. The present copy, unlike the Abbey copy, is bound with the letterpress title and twelve leaves of text at the rear, which is very rare.
Robert Hay was one of the most fascinating figures in early Egyptian archaeology and exploration. "He was in Egypt as one of the leading members of an archaeological expedition between 1826 and 1838. [After staying in Cairo, where he executed the drawings from which the beautiful plates in the above work made, he moved to Qurna.] Among his companions were the artists Arundale, Catherwood, J. Bonomi the younger, and E. W. Lane. Besides Egyptian antiquities presented to the British Museum, there are in the department of manuscripts there forty-nine large volumes of archaeological and other drawings made during this expedition, and also part of Hay's own diary. In 1840 Hay published a folio volume of 'Illustrations of Cairo,' lithographed by J. C. Bourne from drawings by O.B. Carter. Owen Browne Carter (1806-1859), "architect and draughtsman, spent most of his life at Winchester, where he had a large local practice as an architect. About 1829-30 he traveled to Egypt in company with Mr. Robert Hay of Linplum, and resided for some length of time at Cairo. There he executed a large number of architectural and topographical drawings, several of which are preserved in the Print Room at the British Museum. A selection of these drawings was lithographed under Carter's superintendence by J.C. Bourne and others, and published in 1840 by Mr. Hay in a folio volume entitled 'Illustrations of Cairo'

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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Lot No. 44: HAY, ROBERT

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAIRO.

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HAY, ROBERT

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CAIRO.

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