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Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 26.6 x 38.2 cm

Egypt: court of the Medinet-Habu temple. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1874.

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

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

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

Accompanying sheet of text by Johannes Dümichen describes subject as the pyramids of Chufu (Cheops) and Chefren, with the Sphinx in front

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 23.6 x 34.1 cm

Egypt: the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Described by Johannes Dümichen on accompanying sheet as: "the flood-encircled and palm-crowned island of Philae with the temple of Isis"

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 26.8 x 38.1 cm

Egypt: the temple of Isis at Philae. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 23.7 x 34.2 cm

Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Tomb and mosque built as memorial to al-Malik al-As̲ẖraf Abu ʼl-Naṣr Barsbāy, Mamlūk sultan of Egypt from 1422 to 1438 (825-841 AH)

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Cairo: tomb of Sultan Barsbai (Barsbāy). Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Left, men on the river bank towing a barge; right, a felucca on the river

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 18.3 x 30.2 cm

Egypt: the river Nile near Akhmim. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Described in accompanying sheet of text by Johannes Dümichen: right side shows south east part of island of Elephantine, with Libyan mountains in background; left, Assuan, the point where goods imported from Nubia and the south had to pay duty (rubber, ivory, etc.)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 24.3 x 35 cm

Egypt: the Nile at Aswān. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 33.4 x 24.2 cm

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Egypt: court of the Medinet-Habu temple. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1874.

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

Egypt: the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Egypt: the temple of Isis at Philae. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Cairo: tomb of Sultan Barsbai (Barsbāy). Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Egypt: the river Nile near Akhmim. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Egypt: the Nile at Aswān. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.

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Egypt: court of the Medinet-Habu temple. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1874.

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

Egypt: the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Egypt: the temple of Isis at Philae. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Cairo: tomb of Sultan Barsbai (Barsbāy). Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Egypt: the river Nile near Akhmim. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.

Egypt: the Nile at Aswān. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.

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