2-701-181 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Geometric mural decoration from 15th or 16th century; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (print). details of different mosaic designs seen by the artist on his travels through Egypt; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; illustrations of Islamic art, architecture, woodwork, tiling, interiors, furnitute etc.; copied by 19th century designers for carpet and wallpaper design etc. for the West; Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French archeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer of the nineteenth century.