WERNER, Carl. 
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Carl Werner’s Nile Sketches painted from Nature during his Travels through Egypt. Wandsbeck near Hamburg: Gustav W. Seitz,[1878].
FIRST EDITION. Large folio (37.5 x 29 cm). pp.70+[1]. Original grey cloth by J.F. Bösenberg of Leipzig, with elaborate red and green morocco-gilt onlays, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Title-page printed in black and red. Chromolithographed frontispiece map and 24 chromolithographed plates printed on heavy stock, each with captioned tissue-guard. “The plates are facsimile pantographic prints from Werner’s watercolours; they are of superb quality” (Khatib, Palestine and Egypt Under the Ottomans). Spine with some light sunning and small split along back joint, some light spotting to plates, generally a very good copy. Born and trained in Germany, Werner set up a studio in Venice and became a popular and respected European watercolorist, exhibiting across Europe (and England in particular). During his travels in Egypt and Palestine, done in 1862-64, he became one of the few non-Muslims granted access to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. A contemporary reviewer thought Werner’s “architectural pictures bring all the purity and richness of watercolor to a system of study deliberate and complete. His Eastern views are the best architectural work of the day” (The Century Magazine). With text by Dr. A.E. Brehm and Dr. Johannes Dümichen. “Werner was a professor at the Academy of Leipzig. He travelled in the Levant in 1862-4 and c. 1870. His first excursion was productive of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the Holy Places, 1865, with text by G. R. Gleig. His second journey included the Egyptian excursion. The plates are dated on the surfaces from 1870 to 1874, but it seems unlikely that he remained in Egypt for so long. These dates may refer to paintings done in his studio from sketches, or else he may have travelled in Egypt during five consecutive winters... Four of Werner's original drawings which formed the basis of this publication are in the Benaki Museum. They are all views of buildings on the Acropolis. Werner's paintings are also preserved at Leipzig and at the Victoria and Albert Museum and include views of Venice, Spalatro (Split), Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem” (Blackmer). (Blackmer 1947)
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