Rouargue Frères

Quays, river approaches and cathedral towns across Europe give prints by the Rouargue brothers a strongly architectural char...

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Quays, river approaches and cathedral towns across Europe give prints by the Rouargue brothers a strongly architectural character. Émile Rouargue, who died in 1865, and his younger brother Adolphe, born in 1810, were French draughtsmen and engravers working in nineteenth-century illustrated publishing, and the material here dates from 1840 to 1876. French provincial monuments appear beside views of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Cádiz, Berlin, Valletta and Venice, with boats and quays tying the buildings to their waterfronts. African travel subjects form a separate strand, with villages, houses and people in the regions around present-day Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.

Quays, river approaches and cathedral towns across Europe give prints by the Rouargue brothers a strongly architectural character. Émile Rouargue, who died in 1865, and his younger brother Adolphe, born in 1810, were French draughtsmen and engravers working in nineteenth-century illustrated publishing, and the material here dates from 1840 to 1876. French provincial monuments appear beside views of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Cádiz, Berlin, Valletta and Venice, with boats and quays tying the buildings to their waterfronts. African travel subjects form a separate strand, with villages, houses and people in the regions around present-day Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.

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