drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1836,0109.63
- Description
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Vue d'un temple de Louqssor avec un ouragan, one of two studies for Plate 47 of the artist's 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte', 1802; the temple ruins with columns at l, partially hidden by sand dunes, a boat on the river Nile at r, a hurricane approaching beyond
Pen and black ink, with grey wash; squared for transfer
- Production date
- 1802 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 128 millimetres
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Width: 272 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
- 1836,0109.63
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CC,04.63