Marcel Kamm (active mid-19th century)
"Combat du Giaour et du Pacha", c.1856,
after Eugène Delacroix’s (aka Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène
Delacroix) (1798–1863) painting, “A Turk Surrenders to a
Greek Horseman”, 1856, in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums (https://hvrd.art/o/303412). The portrayed
subject illustrates an episode in Lord Byron's (1788–1824) 1813 poem “The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale”, featuring the Venetian Giaour (a Turkish word for a non-Muslim/infidel) on a Greek
battlefield drawing his gun on the Pasha (a Turk named Hassan) to avenge his lover’s death.
Etching with engraving on heavy cream-coloured wove (Japan) paper with wide margins.
Size: (sheet) 45 x 31.3 cm; (plate) 29.3 x 23 cm; (image borderline)
24.3 x 19.2 cm.
Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower-left corner) “Eug.
Delacroix/ 1856”.
Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “EUG. DELACROIX. pinx.”;
(centre) "COMBAT DU GIAOUR ET DU PACHA"; (right) “MARCEL KAMM. sculp.”
Interestingly, there is no record of this print in any major museum
repository or reference to this print currently online.
Condition: richly inked and faultless impression with generous margins
in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses,
abrasions, stains or foxing).
I am selling this visually arresting etching illustrating an episode
of avengeance in Lord Byron’s poem, “The Gaur, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale” (1813),
for the total cost of AU$182 (currently US$119.53/EUR108.91/GBP97.84 at the
time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but
not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).
If you are interested in purchasing this curiously undocumented etching
after Delacroix’s 1856 painting, executed by an equally undocumented/forgotten 19th
century printmaker of exceptional skill (viz. Marcel
Kamm), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send
you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
