Antique Print-COLUMN-CAPITALS-ESNA-EGYPT-NAPOLEONIC-Sellier-1809

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 51 x 70 cm (20.08 x 27.56 inch). Image size: 41 x 56 cm. (16.14 x 22.05 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ESNA, LATOPOLIS, EGYPT, COLUMN CAPITALS, NAPOLEONIC EXPEDITION, DESCRIPTION DE L’EGYPTE, ARCHITECTURE, ANTIQUITIES | FOLDER-XLARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Description de l’Egypte: Antiquites, Volume I, Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1809.

State: First edition.

Reference: NYPL Shelf locator: OBM+++ Description de l’Egypte (B14212718); OCLC: 5719116.

Biography engraver: Likely part of the official team of engravers employed by the Imprimerie Imperiale to produce the Description de l’Egypte.

Biography artist: The Commission des Sciences et Arts d’Egypte was a group of scholars and artists brought by Napoleon to document Egypt’s antiquities and natural history during the 1798-1801 campaign.