Coloring: Shown here with added hand coloring of highlights. Also available in original lithographic colors only.

Comments: A vertical half-folio from the Cairo series, showing the marker used to measure the official level of the Nile flood, upon which the year's taxes were based.

Price: $300 uncolored, $375 colored.

 

Title: The Nilometer on the Island of Rhoda, Cairo

Edition: First Edition (Standard), 1842-49

Condition: Excellent

Dimensions:

Paper : 16 3/8" x 23 15/16"

Image: 9 7/8" x 13 15/16"

Catalog Number: EB 036