drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1836,0109.197.e
- Description
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Face interieur d'un temple dans l'isle Eléphantine, one of five studies for Plate 128 of the artist's 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte', 1802; frieze from the interior of a temple comprising a boat, two figures at l, two figures standing before a god with ram's head seated at r, hieroglyphs above
Pen and grey ink
- Production date
- 1802 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 87 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Engraved by Louis Pierre Baltard.
There is no copy of Denon's 'Voyage...' in the Department. The B.L. copy is at 458.h.12.
The minutes of the Trustees' meeting on 12th December, 1835, record that "two or three" of the drawings were missing when the group was offered to the Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0109.197.e
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CC,04.197
