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Photo, Print, Drawing North African Brigands and Arab, Circa 1845.

About this Item

Title

  • North African Brigands and Arab, Circa 1845.

Summary

  • This watercolor was painted by Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet (1817--78), a French artist of genre and history and a pioneer in photography. In 1839--40, he accompanied his uncle, the great French painter Horace Vernet (1789--1863), on a visit to North Africa and the Middle East. In 1843, Goupil-Fesquet published an account of their travels entitled Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient, which included 16 plates after Goupil-Fesquet. During the trip Goupil-Fesquet took some of the earliest known daguerreotype photographs of the region and its monuments. This watercolor, although it did not appear in the 1843 book, may relate to the series of images Goupil-Fesquet created on the journey with Vernet. The painting is from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Brown University Library.

Names

  • Goupil (Frédéric-Auguste-Antoine), 1817-1878 Artist.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1845.

Headings

  • -  1845
  • -  Brigands and robbers
  • -  Caves
  • -  Watercolors
  • -  Weapons

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 watercolor; 37.7 x 28.3 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Brown University Library.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670159

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Goupil , Artist. North African Brigands and Arab. , 1845. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670159/.

APA citation style:

Goupil, A. (1845) North African Brigands and Arab. , 1845. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670159/.

MLA citation style:

Goupil , Artist. North African Brigands and Arab. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670159/>.