Bettino Craxi

Camels in the Tunisian Desert - Photolithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1995

1995

Tunisian Camels is an original photolithograph realized in the 1990s by the Italian politician Bettino Craxi after A. Lumière. Hand-signed. Artist's proof. Very good conditions.

Tunisian Camels is an original photolithograph realized in the 1990s by the Italian politician Bettino Craxi after A. Lumière. Hand-signed. Artist's proof. Very good conditions.

Well presented in a cream card mount and gilt effect frame. Signed indistinctly. On wove.

"Suez, General View" is a 19th century folio sized tinted duo-tone lithograph, plate 124 from the "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" volume of David Roberts’ large folio edition, published in London by F. G. Moon in 1843. The lithographs were prepared by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) from paintings by Roberts. The resultant large folio editions of 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia' are considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th century. The lithograph depicts the Suez city skyline on a peninsula with boats moored in the bay. Men, dressed in traditional Arab costumes, rest on a hillside In the foreground with their camels, weapons and presumably goods for sale and trade. This tinted lithograph, which is professionally framed in a decorative gold-colored wood frame with cream-colored double mats. The print is in excellent condition. There are four additional listings of David Roberts hand colored engravings of Egypt...