drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1836,0109.200.f
- Description
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Hieroglyphes qui sont au portique du temple de Tentyris, one of six studies for Plate 131 of the artist's 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte', 1802; hieroglyphs and figures from the portico of a temple, four soul birds on one side and four with heads of a jackal (probably Anubis), on right side of a boat carrying figures and a sun disc with row of figures sitting on a wedjat eye
Pen and grey ink
- Production date
- 1802 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 98 millimetres
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Width: 222 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Engraved by Gatien.
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
- 1836,0109.200.f
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CC,04.200