Jean-Baptiste Prosper JOLLOIS, Edouard DEVILLIERS (delineavit)
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Suite des coupes transversales. Détails d'une colonne et d'une frise et d'une corniche d'un palais. (ANTIQUITES, volume III, planche 10)
Imprimerie Impériale|Paris 1809-1829|71 x 54 cm|une feuille
Original etching in plano, uncut, extracted from the so-called "Imperial" edition of the Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.
Produced between February 1802 and 1829 by order of Napoleon Bonaparte and published from 1809 [actually 1810], it was printed in 1000 copies on watermarked laid paper "Égypte ancienne et moderne" and presented to institutions.
Detail of sections through the porticoes surrounding the palace courtyard, different types of lotiform columns (enlarged detail at the center of the plate), friezes
Produced between February 1802 and 1829 by order of Napoleon Bonaparte and published from 1809 [actually 1810], it was printed in 1000 copies on watermarked laid paper "Égypte ancienne et moderne" and presented to institutions.
Detail of sections through the porticoes surrounding the palace courtyard, different types of lotiform columns (enlarged detail at the center of the plate), friezes
€150