CHRISTY, Henry (1810 – 1865)
1810 – 1865
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1864 CE
#7258
Cavernes du Périgord. Objets gravés et sculptés des temps pré-historiques dans l’Europe occidentale.
In 1863 Lartet and Christy began systematically examining the caves in the Périgord (Dordogne) region of France. This study of mobiliary or portable art, such as carved stones, carved ivory, carved bones, or ca…
1875 CE
#9492
Reliquiae Aquitanicae; being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France. Edited by Thomas Rupert Jones.
This beautiful and bibliographically complicated work was issued in 17 parts from 1865 to 1875. It includes 82 tinted lithographic plates, and is the first visually spectacular large extensively illustrated publicatio…