Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt Year: 1883 (1880s) Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: Carolina and Virginia, who, before theAmerican civil war, laboured under the whips of their drivers, and 1 Brucsch-Bky, Histoire (f Egypte,\t\i. 14. 15.VOL. I. G A- A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. enjoyed no more of the fruits of their own labour than what wasbarely sufficient to keep life in their bodies. Torn from theirhomes and kept by force in the public works, the fellahs died inthousands ; those who remained in the fields had to pay the taxesone or two years in advance ; they were never out of debt,nominally, to the public treasury, and the rattan of the collectorextorted from them such savings as they might make during yearsof plenty, up to the last coin. But still laughter did not cease inEgypt! Look, for instance, at the children in the streets of Cairowho let out mounts to sight-seeing Europeans. Let the touristtrot or gallop as he will, when he stops he finds his donkey-boy byhis side, full of spirits and good humour; and yet perhaps while ,V-^ki^-^^=^^^.^_,.^^ .,^/i^~~^

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 31.—Water Tournament, from a tomb at Khoum-el-Ahmar. (From Prisse.) running behind his fare he has been making his midday mealupon a few grains of maize tied up in a corner of his shirt. In 1862 I returned from Asia Minor in company with M.Edmond Guillaume, the architect, and M. Jules Delbet, the doctor,of our expedition to Ancyra. We took the longest way home, bySyria and Egypt. At Cairo, Mariette, after having shown us themuseum at Boulak, wished to introduce us to his own Serapeum.He took us for a night to his house in the desert, and showed usthe galleries of the tomb of Apis by torchlight. We passed thenext afternoon in inspecting those excavations in the necropolis ofSakkarah which have led to the recovery of so many wonders ofEgyptian art. The works were carried on by the labour of fourhundred children and youths, summoned by the corvde for fifteen The Constitution of Egyptian Society. 43 days at a time from some district, I forget which, of Middle Egypt.At sunset these

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