Various Artists

Uses and Customs - Nilometro - Lithograph - 1862

1862

Uses and Customs - Temple is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the governmen...

Uses and Customs - Papas is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government...

Uses and Customs - Nepi is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government,...

Uses and Customs - Turks is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government...

Egyptians – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Engraving (c.1810) Original early 19th-century hand-colored copperplate engraving depicting two Egyptians in an urban street setting. A...

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How high is the water, mama? Johny Cash was asking his mother, when it is was '6 feet high and rising'. In Egypt it would probably mean that taxes that year would be low. In Egypt it all depended on the behavior of the Nile and a Priest, who would monitor the so-called Nilometer. A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season. If the water level was low, there would be less food. If it was too high, it would be destructive. There was a specific mark that indicated how high the flood should be if the fields were to get good soil. Their predictions would determine how much money...

The 1862 original lithography by François-Edmond Pâris, titled "Souvenirs de Jérusalem - Chapelle du Saint Sépulcre," stands as a testament to both artistic skill and historical sign...