George Lloyd (1815-1843)
Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
460 mm (Height) x 570 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 293042.3
Summary
Print, engraving, George Lloyd (1815-1843). A Folder titled The Oriental Album by E PRISSE ESQ this print is one of nine showing a portrait of George Lloyd dressed in Arabian costume laying on his side on a rug smoking a Hookah pipe with camels in the background.The 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile', with text by James Augustus St John (1795-1887) and illustrated by Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879). George Lloyd was a botanist, to whom this work was dedicated and whose portrait forms the frontispiece. It was at Lloyd's suggestion that this series of drawings was originally projected but he accidently shot himself and did not live to see its publication.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879), original artist