Porcelain painter: Jacques François Joseph Swebach, 1808.
The view is after the illustration by Vivant Denon (1747-1825) “Combat d’Abou-qyr” (Plate 90) for the published description of his journey to Egypt during Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign, Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte (1802). Denon was an artist, curator and author who worked in Italy and France and was Napoleon’s Minister of Arts and first director of the Musée Napoléon (Louvre) (1802-15).

Battle of Abukir was fought on July 25, 1799, between French and Ottoman army. Napoleon’s forces won a decisive victory.