Cassas, Louis François, 1756-1827,. Materials for Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine, et de la Basse Aegypte, 1795-1823.
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Materials for Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine, et de la Basse Aegypte, 1795-1823.
The collection consists of printed proofs, drawings, and manuscript material preparatory for Cassas' publication. Vols. 1-2 contain a total of 190 prints. Vol. 3 includes several manuscripts. Vol. 4 is an empty volume which formerly held prints and drawings in Series IV; some leaves are annotated. Vol. 5 includes a printed prospectus, and several unbound manuscripts. The prints are proofs before letters. The bound prints have names of artists engraved below the image; only one plate includes an engraved caption (vol. 2, plate 96). The unbound prints and drawings have captions, artists' names, notes, and references to volume and plate number added in pencil or ink. All plates are undated except for five unbound plates which bear the dates 1823, 1797, 1796, and 1795. According to a handwritten note in flat file folder 1** some of the unbound prints reproduce drawings that are no longer extant; and some of the drawings were reproduced in print, however, those prints no longer exist. The plates are engraved or etched mainly by Pierre Charles Baquoy,M. A. Benoist, Pierre Gabriel Berthault, Philibert Boutrois, Edme Bovinet, Louis Jacques Cathelin, Robert Daudet, J. J. De La Porte, Robert Delaunay, François Nicolas Barthélemy Dequevauviller, Marie Alexandre Duparc, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupréel, Antoine Michel Filhol, Louis Garreau, Jean Godefroy, Guette, Helvis, Abraham Jacobsz. Hulk, François-Robert Ingouf, Lepagelet, Charles François Le Tellier, Jean Charles Le Vasseur, Jean-Bapt. Liénard, Claude-Nicolas Malapeau, George Malbeste, Louis-Joseph Masquelier, Jean Mathieu, Michelinot, Simon Charles Miger, Alexandre Moisy, François-Denis Née, Charles Emmanuel Patas, Jean Louis Charles Pauquet, Louis Perrier (signing Perrier fils), Michel Picquenot, Jean Antoine Piérron, Jean Pillement, Jean-Bapt. Racine, Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette, Jean-Baptiste Réville, Gustave Taraval, Jean Baptiste Tilliard, and Charles Nicolas Varin. Other engravers are: Copeau, Coquet, Louis Croutelle, Dalencour, Delaitre (some plates are signed Delêtre, Delettre), Desmaisons, Dufrene, Hubert, Le Clerc, Henri Legrand, Lepine, Mlle. Levé, Claude Niquet, Michel Nitot (Dufresne), Plée fils, Poquet, Van Maële (some plates are signed Vanmaelle, Van-maette). Predominant are views of ancient sites and architecture in Asia Minor (Turkey), Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Cyprus. Cassas drew the ancient ruins as well as their imaginary reconstructions. Also present are renderings of elevations and floor plans of temples, tombs, triumphal arches, obelisks, and other structures, along with architectural details such as freezes, cornice, columns, entablatures, and inscriptions. Numerous prints depict landscapes, figures in local costume, and scenes from daily life, including a wedding, a caravan in the desert, and a scene of Ghawazee women in Egypt dancing in the streets. Among the sites Cassas drew in Egypt are Roman and Egyptian antiquities of Alexandria, a map of Alexandria, temples and pyramids of Giza, and the mosques of Cairo. In Syria, he made numerous drawings of Palmyra (Tadmur), including the Temple of Neptune and the Temple of the Sun, and a plan of the site showing excavations and topographical features; also present are several drawings of Aleppo and Hims [Hems]. In Lebanon he produced numerous drawings of antiquities at Baalbec and Tyre, views of Tripoli, and landscapes, including a view of a cedars forest. Among the drawings he made in Palestine are plans and views of Mount Moriah (Temple Mount), the Temple of Salomon, and other monuments, including ancient Hebrew tombs, and a view of Akko. In Cyprus Cassas made drawings of the monastery of Cazzafam, views of Nicosia, Famagusta, Idalion (Idalium), and Amathus. Among drawings made in Turkey are views of Antioch.
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ca. 10 lin. ft. (5 boxes, 21 flat file folders)
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