4096 - Teynard, Félix

Teynard, Félix Égypte et Nubie: sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l’étude de l’art et de l’histoire. 1851-52. 4 salted paper prints from paper negatives, printed 1853-58, each mounted to an original printed mount. Each 24 x 31 cm (mount 39,5 x 50,8 cm). Titled in the printed mounts: "Tâfah (Taphis) - Ruines de constructions à assises courbes," pl. 113; "Île de Fîleh (Philæ) - Premier pylône - Vue prise de la plate-forme de la colonnade orientale en P," pl. 97; "Erment (Hermonthis) - Vue générale des ruines - Temple et mammisi," pl. 69; and "Deuxième cataracte - Rocher d’Abouçir - Rapides et îlots granitiques," pl. 160. With the photographer, printer and publisher imprints: "Félix Teynard phot."; "Imp. phot. de H. de Fonteny et Cie, f. à Paris en 1851, r. St Nicolas d’Antin, 72"; and "Publié par Goupil et Cie éditeurs, Paris, Londres, Berlin, New York." A civil engineer by training, Teynard travelled through Egypt and Nubia in 1851-52 to make a systematic photographic survey of ancient monuments and the Nile landscape. Issued by Goupil in installments and finally as a 160-plate atlas, Égypte et Nubie was conceived as a photographic complement to the Description de l’Égypte. The present plates range from the ruins at Tâfah, Philae and Erment to the granite landscape of the Second Cataract, exemplifying Teynard’s measured, architecturally attentive approach. – Original mounts with overall light time-staining, scattered foxing and occasional handling marks; sheets slightly cockled. More pronounced foxing and staining on the mounts of pl. 97 and pl. 160; pl. 113 with a small stain in the upper right area; otherwise all in good condition, with prints retaining strong, warm tones.