Egypt revealed
Subtitle: artist-travellers in an antique land
By: T.G.H. James
Publisher: Folio Society
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Egyptologists; Biography; Archaeological illustration; Antiquities; Pictorial works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Maps; title: To set the scene; title: Seriously intentioned travellers; title: William John Bankes and Henry Salt; title: John Gardner Wilkinson: the first British Egyptologist; title: Robert Hay and Company; title: The Egypt Exploration Society; title: Howard Carter and the role of the artist; title: And what about the camera?; title: Bibliography; title: Notes; title: Translations and sources of the heading texts; title: List of illustrations; title: Index.