Visits to monasteries in the Levant
Robert Curzon's 1849 travel account of monastery visits in Egypt, Palestine, Greece and the Levant, published by John Murray in London for British readers interested in manuscripts and the Eastern churches. The plates are outline wood engravings of standing figures in regional dress drawn with fine hatching and plain backgrounds of masonry, desert or distant buildings, useful for costume silhouettes, drapery folds, and isolated figures that cut out cleanly.
