Émile Prisse d'Avennes explained

Achille-Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d'Avennes (27 January 1807, Avesnes-sur-Helpe  - 16 February 1879, Paris) was a French archaeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Biography

Prisse d'Avennes was born in Avesnes-sur-Helpe, France, on 27 January 1807, to a noble family of French origin. After the early death of his father in 1814, on the guidance of his grandfather he enrolled at college a year later to train for a career within the legal profession.^[8] Prisse d'Avennes decided to become an archaeologist in 1836 after a period teaching at the infantry school in Damietta.^[9]

Life in Egypt

In 1827 when he reached Egypt, he was hired by the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, as a civil engineer. He spent many years living as an Egyptian, adopting the name Idriss-effendi, learning to speak Arabic and practicing Islam. He stated that adopting Egyptian culture resulted in a greater understanding of Egyptian society and people.^[10]

Oriental Album

In 1848, he contributed 30 lithograph images depicting the people living on the Nile Valley to a costume book titled Oriental Album written by James Augustus St. John who was a British author and traveler.^{[11] [12]}

Selected bibliography

• Arabic Art: monuments after Cairo from the 7th century to the end of the 18th century (1869-1877)(with Schmidt,C) NY public library archive retrieved GMT12:56 25.9.11^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}
• Arabic Decoration (1885)^[17]
• Atlas of Egyptian Art, with an introduction by Maarten J. Raven, captions by Olaf E. Kaper (reedition AUC Press 2000) ^[18]
• Egyptian monuments, bas-reliefs, paintings, sculptures (1842) NY public library archive retrieved GMT12:51.25.9.11
• Monuments of Egypt and of the Nubie: descriptive Notices and the letters of Egypt and the Nubie retrieved 13:07GMT 24/09/2011
• Histoire de l'art égyptien d'après les monuments depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la domination romaine par Prisse d'Avennes; ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique, des cultes et des beaux-arts. Texte par P. Marchandon de La Faye ... (d'après les notes de l'auteur) Published 1878
• Histoire de l'art egyptien : d'après les monuments retrieved 12:25 24/09/11
• page.393 of text retrieved (approx') GMT13:45 24/09/11
• http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199006/prisse-a.portrait.htm

See also

• Arabic Art
• Prisse Papyrus

External links

• french language link list of publications retrieved GMT 12:55 24/09/2011
• list of texts and documents retrieved GMT 14:30/1 24.9.11
• Copyright © 2004-2010 Aramco Services Company. retrieved GMT 09:41 02/07/07
• archives
• ©2002-2011
• http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199006/prisse-a.portrait.htm

Notes and References

1. catalogue of exhibition Visions d’Égypte Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879),Bibliothèque nationale de France
2. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4943729A/Achille_Constant_Th%C3%A9odore_%C3%89mile_Prisse_d'Avennes openlibrary
3. http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?session=npFynKulrH8&_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Names A-Z&person=15153 (content unused in this article)
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=JexHxBDyT-YC&pg=PA783 page 783 of Dictionary of the orientalists of French language François.Pouillon
5. http://www.vialibri.net/item_pg/6682282-1807-prisse-avennes-achille-constant-art-arabe-apr-232-les-monuments.htm (content of this link is currently unused within this article)
6. http://www.egypt.edu/feuilleton/prisse.htm french language site
7. http://braives.be/page105713447.aspx Copyright © 2009 Commune de Braives
8. http://patrimoine.gadz.org/gadz/prisse2.htm André Monclus (p.40) & Jean Vuillemin (p.40)- Arts et Métiers Magazine - November 2002-Biographie de Prisse d'avennes rédigée par C.N. Peltrisot membre de la société archéologique et historique de l'arrondissement d'Avennes (published 1934)
9. http://www.egypt.edu/feuilleton/prisse.htm egypt.com-french language
10. Mercedes Volait. Surveying monuments in Egypt: the work of Emile Prisse d’Avennes (1807- 1879). Lecture given at the General Consulate of Egypt in Djeddah, 30 November 2013. 2013.
11. Web site: Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile. - NYPL Digital Collections. digitalcollections.nypl.org. en. 2017-10-31.
12. Book: St. John, James Augustus (1795-1875). Oriental album, characters, costumes and modes of life in the valley of the Nile / illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse. ; With descriptive lettrer-press by James Augustus St John, author of. 1848. Madden. London. English.
13. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636213366 online book catalogue
14. http://www.forumrarebooks.com/Prisse-Achille-Constant-Theodore-Arabe-les-monuments-du-kaire-depuis.html forumrarebooks
15. https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=13&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=dkm160230.pdf&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&rlz=1W1GPCK_enGB446&pbx=1&oq=dkm160230.pdf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=21dcc0be2aa5cc0&biw=1600&bih=773 dkm160230-(Professor N.Poppe(Dawson:Egyptology)
16. https://books.google.com/books?id=kv8-7vKP9PMC&pg=PA375 time of publication and times within scope of study
17. https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=13&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=dkm160230.pdf&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&rlz=1W1GPCK_enGB446&pbx=1&oq=dkm160230.pdf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=21dcc0be2aa5cc0&biw=1600&bih=773 dkm160230-(Professor N.Poppe(Dawson:Egyptology)
18. https://books.google.com/books/about/Atlas_of_Egyptian_Art.html?id=VvkQ8lZbAugC text image and brief description