Title: La Marche de la Caravane du Grand Caire pour la Mecque
Date: 1719
Location: printed in Rouen, France
Materials: engraved print
Dimensions: 16 x 35.7cm
Accession Number: ARC.pt 171.2
Other Notes:
‘The march of the caravan from Cairo to Mecca’ is an illustration (page 130 ) from volume II of Troisième voyage du sieur Paul Lucas, fait en M.DCCXIV, & c. par ordre de Louis XIV dans la Turquie, l’Asie, la Sourie, la Palestine, la Haute et la Basse Egypte, & c., by Paul Lucas. It is the earliest printed European depiction of the mahmal procession.
A detached print, from another edition of the work (‘Tom.I, pag.367’), is also in the Collection (ARC.pt 83, illustrated below).
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