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5 décembre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.inha.4871
- isbn: 978-2-7084-0941-5
- eisbn: 978-2-917902-80-6
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High income people Wealthy people Affluent people Rich Rich people--Economic conditions Rich, The Effect of praise Donations Presents Physical activity Warm-up Workouts (Exercise) East 40s (Nineteenth century decade) Forties (Nineteenth century decade) 1840s comptabilitéCiter ce document
Abraham Thomas, « James Wild, Cairo and the South Kensington Museum », Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, ID : 10.4000/books.inha.4871
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In his recollections of the great Prussian expedition to Egypt and Nubia in the 1840s, Carl Richard Lepsius described James Wild as “a young architect, full of genius, [who] seeks with enthusiasm in the East a new field for the exercise of the rich and various gifts with which he is endowed”.These words were praise indeed. However, other accounts reveal some of the early frustrations felt by this precocious, ambitious architect:“Although considered successful by his contemporaries, [Wild] wa...
