Tag: Khan Khalil

Leaving Rome early in 1840, Lewis travelled to Constantinople, seeing Albania, Corfu, Athens and Smyrna en route. He spent the best part of a year in the Levant, but in November 1841, at the age of thirty-six, he sailed for Egypt. John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804–15 August 1876) was a British Orientalist…