drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1836,0109.61
- Description
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Vue et plan de temple à Thèbes près Médynet-âboù, one of two studies for Plate 46 of the artist's 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte', 1802; view of the mortuary temple of Ramesses III with two columns before the entrance, figures on a rise at r, further ruins beyond
Pen and grey ink, with grey wash; squared for transfer
- Production date
- 1802 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 107 millimetres
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Width: 237 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
- 1836,0109.61
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CC,04.61