A curious and convivial traveller : Edward Roger Pratt in Greece and Egypt 1832-34 / Patricia Usick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Usick, Patricia, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 6.

British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pratt, Edward Roger, 1789-1863--Travel.

Pratt, Edward Roger.

Pratt, Edward Roger, 1789-1863--Diaries.

Greece--Description and travel.

Greece.

Greece--In art.

Egypt--Description and travel.

Egypt.

Egypt--In art.

Travel.

Genre:

Art.

Diaries.

Physical Description:

438 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 31 cm.

Other Title:

Edward Roger Pratt in Greece and Egypt 1832-34

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2020.

Summary:

In 2001 the British Museum acquired the first of two ancient Egyptian stelae from the collection of the traveller Edward Roger Pratt (1789-1863) of Ryston Hall, Norfolk, and discovered his 1832-34 unpublished journals for Greece and Egypt and the 136-page album with his own drawings, watercolours, and paper impressions of bas-reliefs from a solo Nile voyage to the Second Cataract. Pratt recorded ancient monuments and sites, many later damaged or destroyed. In Greece Pratt travelled widely and adventurously with scholarly architects and artists studying ancient Greek sites, while in Egypt his guides were the works of the French Egyptologists Jean-François Champollion and Dominique Vivant Denon. A gregarious and enthusiastic traveller, Pratt was supported by extensive consular networks, expatriate communities and other travellers. In this volume his life and travels are reconstructed from his many journals, the travel journals for Greece and Egypt are transcribed and annotated, his maps and plans reproduced, his dispersed antiquities collection reconstructed, and the album drawings are identified and published in colour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-429) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Contains:

Pratt, Edward Roger, 1789-1863. Works. Selections.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789042939639

904293963X

OCLC:

1235742372

Publisher Number:

9789042939639