Panorama of Palmyra
Around 1864. 15,9 x 64,6 cm, Album print on 3 sheet.
Because of his familiarity with the Middle East, Vignes was selected to accompany the archaeologist and early photography enthusiast, the Duc de Luynes, on a scientific excursion in 1864 from Beirut to Palmyra and areas surrounding the Dead Sea. A selection of sixty-four of Vignes’s photographs from this trip were reproduced as photogravures by Charles Nègre for the pictorial atlas of Luynes’s Voyage d’Exploration à la Mer Morte (1875).
An extremely rare panorama print of Palmyra by Vignes.
Vignes was a French admiral and one of the first photographers in the East.
Price: €8,000.00
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