AUGUSTUS OSBORNE LAMPLOUGH (1877-1930) CHEMINS DE FER DE L'ETAT EGYPTIEN / "CREPUSCULE EN EGYPTE." 1911.
38 1/2x24 1/2 inches, 97 3/4x62 1/4 cm. McCorquodale & Co Limited, London.
Condition B+: minor tears and creases at edges; abrasions in image; slightly darkened overall. Paper. Framed.
A British-born painter and watercolorist, Lamplough turned his attention to North Africa after 1902. He wrote and illustrated several books on the region including Cairo and its Environs, Winter in Egypt, Egypt and How to See it and others. Lamplough is known to have designed at least four posters for the Egyptian Railways. Not in Orientalist. rare