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: Fig. 2.—Hoeing ; Beni-Hash^an. (Champollion, pi. 381 bis?) Thus the first tribes established themselves in the countryunder singularly favourable conditions ; thanks to the timely help

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 3.—Ploughing; from the Necropolis of Memphis. [Description de FEgypte, ant. V., pi. 17.) of the river they found themselves assured of an easy existence.^We know how often the lives of those tribes who live by fishing ^ This work of Champollions, to which we are greatly indebted, is entitled: Monu-ments de lEgypte et de la Niibie, 4 vols, folio. It contains 511 plates, partly coloured,and was published between the years 1833 and 1845. The drawings for the plateswere made by members of the great scientific expedition of which Champollion wasthe head. INIany of those drawings were from the pencil of Nestor LHote, one ofthose who have most sympathetically rendered the Egyptian monuments. 2 This advantage was thoroughly appreciated by the ancients. Diodorus Siculus,speaking of the Egyptians, says that At the beginning of all things, the first menwere born in Egypt, in consequence of the happy climate of the country and thephysical properties of the Nile, whose waters, by their natu

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