Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix
Richard William Howard-Vyse's 1841 account of excavations at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, with a voyage up the Nile, published in Britain for an audience of antiquarians and armchair travellers. The lithographed plates show the masonry, passages and chambers he opened, with small figures of workmen and Egyptian guides set against the stone for scale; a designer might borrow their dense hatched shading and the contrast between monumental block walls and tiny human figures.
