Middle East
Friedrich SCHROEDER
FICHE 11537
(1768 - 1839)
Thèbes. Memnonium
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Plate from the Description de l'Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française.
After François-Charles CECILE (1766-1840)
etching
c. 1820 - 1830
The military campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt was coupled with a scientific expedition during which scholars conducted scientific, geographical, ethnological, economic surveys on the territory, giving birth to French Egyptology. The Description of Egypt is the meeting of the results of these surveys, accompanied by illustrations in which hundreds of artists and technicians participated. The writings and the drawings executed during the four years of campaign were united in several volumes. This plate is the 26th of the second volume of the Antiquities.
Sheet : 630 x 940 mm.
Plate: 535 x 845 mm.
Condition: nice impression with margins, scattered foxing, slight paper buckling.
