Sevres Egyptian Service Plate “Autre vue de l’isle de Philae”

Sevres Egyptian Service Plate Bw22





‘Autre vue de l’isle de Philae’, one of three studies of Philae for Plate 71 of Vivant Denon’s ‘Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte’, 1802; the island with its temple ruins viewed from the river Nile below.
Pen and grey ink, with grey wash.



Plate with the same subject but different border from the first eddition.

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