EGYPT Tourists Riding on Donkeys - 1878 German Xylograph Print

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving or Xylograph - an original German antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1878 Illustrator - Publisher: xxxxx - Druck und Verlag von Eduard Hallberger. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper. Dimensions: 10 x 14 inches (25 x 36 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: So-called Tourists: A charming print depicting a group of tourist on their way, no doubt, to the Pyramids. Below is an excerpt from a narration about the ascent of the Great Pyramid: In the sharply defined triangular shadow squat groups of women selling oranges and various dates, donkey-boys are waiting with their gray steeds, and travelers are taking a rest after having accomplished the ascent of the pyramid. This labor now lies before us, and if we were disposed to shirk it, there would be no lack of attacks on our indolent resolve, for from the instant when we stepped out of the carriage we have been closely pursued by a ragged crowd of brown and sinewy guides, vehemently offering their assistance. They proudly call themselves "Bedaween," though they have nothing in common with the true "sons of the desert" but their faults. Nevertheless, it is not only advisable but necessary to have recourse to their help, although the way up can scarcely be missed. We begin to mount at a spot where the failing away of the external stone casing of the pyramid leaves the step-like. interior structure most exposed, and all the way to the top we are on a sort of stairs of smooth-hewn stone ; but the steps are unequal, and sometimes of considerable height-some half as high as a lad. Two or three stout lads accompany me one springs up first with his bare feet, holds my hands, and drags me after him another follows, shoves behind, and heaves me forward; a third takes me under the arm, and lifts. Thus I half scramble up and half am lugged up, and the nimble guides give the climber no rest if he wishes to pause a moment for breath, or to wipe the sweat from his forehead. At the same time they never cease shouting, all the way and clamoring for bakscheesh, and are altogether as perniciously annoying as if they wished us to forget the gratitude we owe them for their assistance. At last we have reached the goal. The point of the pyramid has long since crumbled away, and we find ourselves on a tolerably spacious platform. When our gasping, lungs and throbbing pulses have a little subsided, and we have paid and got rid of the "Bedaween," who torment us to exchange our money and to buy sham antiquities, we look down on the vast space before us, and the longer we gaze and let this glorious landscape penetrate our soul the more full of meaning and the move unique it seems to us. Fertility and dearth, life and death lie nowhere in such close and intimate juxtaposition as here. Out there to the east flows the stately Nile, white lateen-sails fluttering across it; and fields and. meadows, gardens and groves spread along its shores like a carpet of emerald verdure. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.