Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Ruines d'un Temple près Chnubis. 2. Vue d'Ombos. 3. Vue des Ruines de Chnubis. (Planche 75).<br />

Original print folio, taken from Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of three views as described by the author: No.1 ruins of a temple near Chnubis, seven or eight hundred yards from the walls of the city: this little monument, like the Hermitage, the edge of the desert, has a very imposing character; a sanctuary of ancient times was surrounded after a rotating gallery, which was completed by two portals that are destroyed. Desired I should make more views because all its aspects were equally noble and picturesque; nudity soil round the monument leaves no doubt about the isolation in which he was all the time, and there ought not to look for the existence of a lost city in the mists of time. No. 2 View of the ruins of Ombos, capital of the prefecture of the same name, built in a theatrical situation, overlooking the Nile and the entire region of the valley; debris out of its monuments still lavishly bricks and shards of its particular buildings: you can see right into the wall of his circumvallation, with a door that is still understood; the only time I've encountered this life: the two piers, which served probably entrance to the enclosure of the great temple can be seen behind, built on shaky ground, or reported, had foundations that were going down to the level of the river; the temple, very conveniently located, was to produce the most impressive when it was surrounded by all its accessories effect; ruin is still admirable. I never saw that to have to regret not being able to make a view that could give an idea of ??its splendor. On the left, on a mound of red bricks, which are the remains of the ancient city, we perceive some factories, which are the homes of Arab pastoralists who live miserably on the sumptuous ruins of ancient dwellings. I regretted not being able to find within its walls if there would have remnants of some basins where auroient fed crocodiles that we adored in Ombos. No.3 view of the ruins of Chnubis, one of the cities whose remains, though many, are arguably the least idea of ??his plan and the layout of its buildings; it will probably have been built or rebuilt at various times: we see very small monuments close to the large, and also treated in detail. I saw Chnubis twice, and both in the most inconvenient manner (see the newspaper, Volume II, page 170). The ruins are right, small forms, and could belong to very small monuments; which the ends, is a group of two figures side by side and granite reversed: where the two isolated characters is a parapet surrounding a basin around which was a gallery columns. There is still water in the location where we see a hunter who shoots a gun on one of the birds that were in the swamp. The monument to the men on horseback is a gallery of two species of high columns at two periods, however, united by the same flowerbed: seroient is the remains of a temple which we would have done increases? Nearby are two parallel doors, less large, and that belonged to another monument, all beautifully covered many hieroglyphics; but there was more particular in the ruins of this city is the great wall of unbaked bricks whose monuments are still enceints; we see everything left an opening, which was probably a door, which can follow the line along the second plane; is behind the Libyan chain; in front of the Nile landscape changes, before which there had a dock, which there are some ruins. Very discrete foxing, two tiny marginal holes, a tiny trace of angular creases, otherwise good condition. Published for the first time in two volumes, an atlas of engravings, Didot, in 1802, the 'Journey to the Lower and Upper Egypt proved so successful that it was translated in 1803 into English and German, and a few years later in Dutch and Italian, among others. Almost all boards are designed by Denon, who also engraved himself a few, including portraits of the inhabitants of Egypt, who still kept the freshness of sketches taken on the spot (our 104-111 ). Two dozen writers have also collaborated on the creation of which Baltard, Galen, Reville and other etchings. Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon says Vivant Denon, born in Givry January 4, 1747 and died in Paris April 27, 1825, is a writer, author, diplomat and French administrator. At the invitation of Bonaparte, he joined the expedition to Egypt in shipping from May 14, 1798 on the frigate "La Juno." Protected by French troops, he had the opportunity to travel the country in all directions in order to gather the material that was the basis for his artistic work and the most important literary. It supports in particular General Desaix in Upper Egypt, which he refers to numerous sketches, ink wash and other drawings in pen, black chalk, or chalk. He draws constantly, usually on his knee, standing or on horseback, and sometimes even under enemy fire. After a journey of 13 months during which he draws thousands of drawings, Vivant Denon returned to France with Bonaparte, and became the first artist to publish the story of the expedition. The 141 boards that accompany his diary retrace its entire journey from the coast of Corsica to the pharaonic monuments of Upper Egypt. Bonaparte then appointed Director General of the Central Museum of the Republic, which became the Napoleon Museum and the Royal Louvre and arts administrator. In 1805, Vivant Denon revival project of the Vendome column, which had been suspended in 1803 then organizes expeditions across Europe to raise imperial works of art which are plundered to be carried away to the Louvre. In 1814, Louis XVIII confirmed as head of the Louvre, one wing of which still bears his name today. It is considered a great precursor of museology, art history and Egyptology.