Egypt: the "statues of Memnon". Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

  • Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894.
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[1878]
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40355i
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Carl Werner's Nile-sketches, painted from nature during his travels through Egypt. Facsimiles of water-color-paintings executed by Gustav W. Seitz, with accompanying text by Dr A. E. Brehm and Dr Johannes Dümichen
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Egypt: the "statues of Memnon". Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Accompanying sheet of text by Johannes Dümichen recounts the story that the statues had been heard to speak, and identifies the subject of the northern one as Amenophis III, not the Memnon who is mentioned in the Iliad

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Wandsbeck near Hamburg : Gustav W. Seitz, Publishers, [1878]

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 26.2 x 37.7 cm

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The statues of Memnon

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Wellcome Collection 40355i

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