ESTOURMEL, Joseph d’, Comte. Album du Journal d’un Voyage en Orient, Paris, Imprimeurs Unis, 1848.
Joseph Count of Estourmel (1783-1853) travelled the Greek coast from June 1832 to September 1833. Already in his fifties, with this trip he fulfilled the desire of his youth to see the East. On this voyage to Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Syria he met other well-known travellers-political figures, such as J. Michaud, L. Fauvel and others. The chronicle of his journey was published in 1844 under the title "Journal d’un Voyage en Orient". Although Estourmel was travelling together with Swiss painter J.J. Wolfensberger, whose drawings illustrate numerous travel chronicles of the time, the lithographs in this album are based mainly on his own sketches. Through them we can outline his itinerary: Corfu, Zitsa, Dodone, Nicopolis, Leucas, Missolonghi, Corinth, Cenchreae, Athens, Rhodes, Halicarnassus (Bodrum), Smyrna, the Holy Land, Cairo, Suez, Alexandria, Crete, Malta.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
Subjects (32)
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View of the chuch of Saint John in Rhodes, at the entrance to the Street of the Knights.
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View of the street of the Knights in Rhodes, with the Knights' hospital.
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View of the castle of Saint Peter in Halicarnassus (today Bodrum), Asia Minor.
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Jerusalem. Arch of the Ecce Homo. Chapel of the Flagellation. The Praetorium.
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The church of the Dormition of the Virgin (Tomb of the Virgin) in Jerusalem.
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The Aedicule (chapel of the Holy Sepulchre) in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
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The Grotto of the Nativity under the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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The column of Pompey (triumphal column of Diocletian) in Alexandria.
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