ASTENEさんのイラストまとめ

Egyptologist, archaeologist, and artist Howard Carter was born #OnThisDay in 1874. Watercolour falcons by Carter (MSS. vii.1.6.1 & MSS. vii.1.6.2 - © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford)

Check out @britishmuseum’s travel-guides to various ancient civilisations around the world, including: #Persepolis (in 500 BC), #Nineveh (7thC BC), #Rome (1stC BC) & #Egypt (Thebes: 13thC BC): https://t.co/itrMg5bWwI (links to other sites at bottom)
#travel #travelhistory

"The Bosphorus on Christmas Day was particularly beautiful to us, unused now to see outward signs of a Christian people. The almost innumerable European ships were gaily dressed with flags and pennants, which fluttered in the brilliant sunshine.”

Image: Edward Lear (1848)

@royalacademy However, if you look closely at this small riverscape ‘On the Nile’ @FitzMuseum_UK, you can see crew members from Leighton’s ship disembarking on the far side of the bank.

One day she welcomed Harriet Martineau onto her Dahabeya. The two Harriet’s would later spend weeks together trekking through the Sinai Desert.

#BOTD Richard Pococke (1704-1765) painted by Jean-Etiènne Liotard (1740), in oriental costume. Courtesy of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire do la Ville de Genève 🧵👇#Travel #Egyptology

"They are members of a close-knit family group, at home in Bursa, the old Ottoman capital in western Turkey, to which Lewis travelled from Istanbul in 1841. These are not Western women wearing Turkish dress, but members of a local household, who have accepted a European artist"

"On his travels Lewis made sketches remarkable for their acute observation and their sense of immediacy. Here, these four women are portrayed with particular clarity and sensitivity, the differences in their social status defined through dress and attitude."

Over twenty years later, his skill has matured and he has developed an even greater understanding of and empathy with his subjects

Check out our most recent post on #instagram about the satirical #British artist Lance Thackeray (1869-1916) who produced wonderful sketches/watercolours/post-cards depicting scenes he encountered whilst in #Egypt in 1906-7.
https://t.co/Zt2nyg1X3t
#EarlyTravel #ArtHistory #Funny