Werner,C.F.H.

Le Nil. Vingt-quatre aquarelles d'après nature. Text par A.-E.Brehm et J.Dumichien. Paris, A. Levy 1882. fol. With lithogr. map and 24 color lithogr. mounts. Plates in color. 2 pp., 97 pp., 1 leaf. Olwd. with gilt and black embossing and gilt headpieces (some wear and rubbing, back cover slightly browned and with small cover loss). Thieme-Becker XXXV, 404 - One of the most splendid works of views of Egypt, the Nile River, the cities, monuments, landscapes and the folk life of the Egyptians by the architecture and landscape painter Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (1808-1894), "grandson on his mother's side of the actress Christiane Becker née Neumann celebrated by Goethe as 'Euphrosyne'", who studied in Leipzig, Munich and Italy. His "watercolors are hard and unpainterly, but very faithful in the reproduction of all details, therefore of significant topographical, ethnographical and architectural-historical value" (Thieme-Becker). - Mostly loosened, some marginal wear, somewhat browned and stained in places.