The traveller and antiquary Henry Salt (1780-1827) hoped to become
a portrait painter, but recognised his own limitations, and instead
entered the employment of Viscount Valentia, embarking with him on
an eastern tour in 1802. In 1805, Valentia sent him on a mission to
improve relations with the rulers of Abyssinia. After a second
expedition, this time on behalf of the British government, in which
he made observations and collections of the local flora and fauna,
he was appointed consul-general to Egypt, and in his spare time
carried out excavations at Thebes and Abu Simbel. This two-volume
work was published in 1834 by Salt's close friend, the painter J.
J. Halls (1776-1853). Volume 1 tells the story of Salt's early life
and his career up to the famous removal of the colossal statue of
Ramesses II ('Ozymandias') from Thebes to the British Museum in
1816.
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