Antique Print-ARAB WRITING-INSCRIPTION-MOSQUE-TAIZ-THOBAD-Niebuhr-De Huyser-1774

Subject: Plate Tab IX: 'Opschrift aan eene Moskee te Thobad naby Taas.' (Inscriptions on a mosque in Thobad near Taiz, Yemen).

Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Occasional minimal staining. Original fold. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Copperplate engravings / etchings on a verge type of hand laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 23 x 21 cm. The image size is ca. 18 x 14 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.1 x 8.3 inch. The image size is ca. 7.1 x 5.5 inch.

Part Number: 36903

Location: (PCO) A253-08

Description: This original antique print originates from 'Beschryving van Arabie uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld door Carsten Niebuhr. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald en vermeerderd met een volledig register van 't geheele werk.', published in Amsterdam by S.J. Baalde and Utrecht by J. van Schoonhoven & comp., 1774. (Translation: Description of Arabia from personal observation and locally gathered information compiled by Carsten Niebuhr, translated from German with addition of a complete register.) This is the Dutch ed. translated and enlarged in from 'Beschreibung von Arabie...'. published in 1772. Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) travelled extensively in Arabia, Persia, Palestine and Asia Minor, and became by his descriptions and maps and the richness of his observations the pioneer of a more profound knowledge of the Orient. Ref: Tiele 795 and 796; Howgego N24; Gay 3589; cf. Graesse IV, 674/ Cox I, 237; Aboussouan 682-683 and Lipperheide Lc6.

Artists and Engravers: This plate by C. J. de Huyser.