Aus Ägypten. 1922.
Portfolio with fifteen Etchings, title vignette and two double sheets with title, table of content, imprint and text by Julius Elias, published by Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin.1922.
Each signed. Copy from an edition of 110. On laid paper, partly with truncated watermarks. Up to 12,1 x 19,7 cm (4,7 x 7,7 in). Sheet up to: 19,4 x 27,9 cm (7,6 x 11 in).
Original half cloth portfolio. All etchings in orig. mount with embossed number.
Published by Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin. Printed by Carl Sabo, Berlin (etching) and the Spamersche printshop, Leipzig (text).
In the years 1911/12 Emil Orlik was on an extensive journey and also visited Egypt. The etchings in this portfolio go back to these journeys, that are a document of Emil Orlik's unmistakable memory.[EH/CB].

LITERATURE: Exhibition at Adalbert Stifter Verein, Munich, in cooperation with the Städtische Kunstmuseum, Bonn and the Villa Stuck, Munich, 1972/73, pp. 90f.