Vue de Mont Thabor, Israel and Vue du Napelouse

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Louis-François Cassas (1756-1827)
Vue de Mont Thabor, Israel and Vue du Napelouse
two framed together, inscribed on labels attached to backboard, pen and grey ink and watercolour on laid paper, one with added strips
9 x 13¾in. (23 x 35cm.)

Provenance

The Henry Myron Blackmer Collection, sold Sotheby's 23 October 1991, lot 14.
Christopher Gibbs, London

Engraved

Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine et de la Basse Egypte etc. 1799, vol. III, pl. IV and VI .

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Henry Myron Blackmer (1923-1988) was perhaps best known for his library, which was dispersed in 1991. His passion in life was the study of the history, customs and arts of the ancient world, the Levant and the lands under the Ottoman Empire.

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