Bridge Over The Canal Of Alexandria Mayer, Luigi; Thomas Milton Art

Bridge over the Canal of Alexandria has travellers crossing the bridge on foot, by horseback, and camels carrying large bundles, with Pompey's Pillar in the background. A print from "Views in Palestine, from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country and Its Remarkable Places". Mayer [1755-1803] was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire. His "Views in Palestine" were made into aquatints with the help of T. Milton. Aquatint with plate mark 15 1/4 x 12", on paper 18 x 12 3/4", one mark in top margin not affecting image, 1" loss of left margin outside of platemark, otherwise very good condition with delicate color and detail.