An Egyptian Ball, At Ned Sili Mayer, Luigi; Thomas Milton Art

The Ball has men women and children dancing in the street, some women wearing burqas and playing music. A print from "Views in Palestine, from the Original Drawings of Luigi Mayer, with an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country and Its Remarkable Places". Mayer [1755-1803] was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire. His "Views in Palestine" were made into aquatints with the help of T. Milton. Aquatint with plate mark 15 1/4 x 12", on paper 18 x 12 3/4", slt foxing in upper margin, otherwise very good condition with delicate color and detail.