The Pyramids at Cairo

by Henry Salt

$3,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

This view of Cairo from a hilltop near the Citadel, shows Old Cairo with its walls, domed buildings and minarets. Across the Nile, in the hazy distance, are the pyramids of Giza. Heny Salt later returned to Cairo as consul-general for the British. Henry Salt, artist, traveller, diplomat and collector of antiquities, was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England 14 June 1780. He was destined to be a portrait-painter, and on leaving school was taught drawing by Glover, the watercolour-painter

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