Sevres Egyptian Service Plate – Jardin de l’Institut du Caire

Sevres Egyptian Service Plate Bw43




Jardin de l’Institut du Caire
One of three print study drawings for Plate 25 of Vivant Denon’s ‘Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte’, 1802; garden of the Cairo Institute on the river Nile, trees overhanging a building at centre, a complex of buildings and minaret on the further bank.
Pen and grey ink, with grey wash



A bowl from a Sevres tea set with the same subject.

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