EGYPT Nile River Port of Aswan Assouan - 1878 German Print Xylograph

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving or Xylograph - an original German antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1878 Illustrator - Publisher: Fiedler - Druck und Verlag von Eduard Hallberger. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper. Dimensions: 10 x 14 inches (25 x 36 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: Port of Assouan: ... as if on purpose to check the course of the Nile. But the brave stream has succeeded in breaking through its prison of primæval rock at the first cataract, of which we shall soon hear the roar. From the purple tone of these rocks the fresh rich green stands out in lovely relief where the palms are just opening their huge sprays of flowers. Assouan, to our left, is surrounded by palm -groves, which completely conceal the lower part of the town, but not the grey houses of the higher quarter. From the eastern shore of the Nile , where the town stands, and exactly opposite opposite to to us us,, a a noble fragment of a wall-perhaps the last vestige of a ruined bath -house of the time of the Byzantine Emperors or of the first Khalifs — projects into the stream towards the island of Elephantine, which - shaped, it is said, like an oleander -leaf — is brightly and refreshingly green with fields, shrubs, and palm-trees. Behind this island the landscape to the west is closed in by a ridge of hills belonging to the Libyan range, and crowned by a ruined Arab castle. The dark -coloured walls of this ruin stand out in picturesque contrast against the yellow sand of the desert, which makes us wonder what indeed this verdant valley would have been without the river which here enters Egypt after surmounting the mighty barrier Nature has set to its flow at the first cataract. Assouan is, in fact, at the very threshold of Egypt, and the Egyptian name Soun seems admirably well-chosen , meaning, " allowing the entrance .” Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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