Original Antique Print of The Pyramids of Egypt. C.1820

Great images of ancient Egypt Copper-plate engravings. Published C.1800 Unframed.

Great images of ancient Egypt Copper-plate engravings. Published C.1800 Unframed.

Wonderful prints of ancient Egyptian wall decoration After drawings by Howard Carter Published 1896 Lithographs. Original colour Presented in antique bleached pine frames Free U...

Great print of the Road of Pillars, China Copper-plate engraving Published by Thomas Kelly, C.1820 Unframed.

Wonderful image of the Temple of Philae Fine steel engraving after A.W Callcott Published by J. Murray. Dated 1834 Unframed.  

Wonderful image of the Temple of Karnak Fine steel engraving Published by Mackenzie circa 1850 Unframed.  

Antique print titled 'Les Pyramides de l'Egypte'. A vue d'optique of the pyramids of Egypt, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. This is an optical print, also called 'vue optiq...

Antique print with views of the Nile, Egypt. Below near Damietta. Published by C. de Bruijn, circa 1700. Cornelis de Bruijn (also spelled Cornelius de Bruyn, pronounced (1652 – 17...

Antique print titled 'Coliseum, side view'. Large aquatint of the Colosseum. The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an oval amphitheatre in the centre ...

Antique print titled 'Phare de l'Egypte'. A vue d'optique of the lighthouse of Alexandria. Also called Pharos of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous...

Antique print titled 'Arch of the Goldsmiths'. Large aquatint of the Arch of the Goldsmith. The Goldsmith's gate, or arch of the goldsmith, was built by bankers and cattle merchants in A.D. 204 in honor of Septimius Severus and his family, the interior relief sculpture depicts the Roman emperor with his wife, Julia Domna...

This print is from 'The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by A Series of Engravings. From Drawings made on the Spot. Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency the Minister of the Ottoman Porte to his Britannic Majesty.' London, Published by Thomas M'Lean, Haymarket, (1818). Folio. One of 29 fine handcoloured aquatint plates . Very light offsetting from plates. The original accompanying text of this print is as follows: The remote provinces of the Turkish empire pay little more than a nominal subjection to the Porte, whose commands meet with attention, in Egypt, no longer than the chiefs who govern it find their own interest concerned in obeying them. In such countries, therefore, the traveller must venture with the greatest circumspection, when the firman of the Porte is his only safeguard, which is often either doubted or held in contempt by the ignorant chief or his rapacious subalterns, whose enmity to the Christian faith is ever alive, and whose dread of magic keeps the worst suspicions awake. The firman is therefore of little use here, compared to what it is in European Turkey. The annexed subjects represents a military chief attendant on an Aga of Upper Egypt...