Morocco: its people & places

Camps, mounted escorts and gifts for the sultan follow an Italian party on its journey towards Fez in prints from Morocco: i...

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Camps, mounted escorts and gifts for the sultan follow an Italian party on its journey towards Fez in prints from Morocco: its people & places, Edmondo de Amicis's illustrated account, represented here in an 1882 issue. Camel transport and the ceremony of the progress set the scene, views of Tangier, Meknes and Fez show markets, streets, doorways and religious buildings, and household and dining scenes bring the travellers indoors. Horsemen, governors and attendants appear alongside landscapes and coastal views, with one natural-history plate of beetles.

Camps, mounted escorts and gifts for the sultan follow an Italian party on its journey towards Fez in prints from Morocco: its people & places, Edmondo de Amicis's illustrated account, represented here in an 1882 issue. Camel transport and the ceremony of the progress set the scene, views of Tangier, Meknes and Fez show markets, streets, doorways and religious buildings, and household and dining scenes bring the travellers indoors. Horsemen, governors and attendants appear alongside landscapes and coastal views, with one natural-history plate of beetles.

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