drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1836,0109.98
- Description
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Ruines d'un des temples d'Eléphantine, one of two studies for Plate 65 of the artist's 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte', 1802; ruins of a temple, seen beyond dwellings, a group of Egyptians near the foreground, cattle grazing at l
Pen and grey ink, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1802 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres
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Width: 229 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
- 1836,0109.98
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CC,04.98
