Le Pélican. Cataractes du Nil.
Porcelain painter: Caron, Christophe-Ferdinand. 1808.
Background painted after one of Vivant Denon’s three print study drawings for Plate 69 of his ‘Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte’, 1802. View on the river Nile, with small cataracts or cascades, the view interspersed with rocky peaks and palm trees.