M23730.3.97: Egyptian Temples with all kinds of accessories which one can suppose Egyptian Magnificence decorated the grand Monuments.--Second and last plate of the kind. One has not heard intended to give in this plate, nor in that which follows, a restoration any authority would not sufficiently justify, but merely a decoration where the idea has come to the author, at the view of a number of fragments of the Sphinx, located near the Pyramids. Elsewhere, all the pieces of this decoration, except in their whole, at least in their details, do not have Egyptian Character

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M23730.3.97

People

Louis Jacques Cathelin, French (Paris 1739 - 1804 Paris)
After Louis-François Cassas, French (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - 1827 Versailles)

Title

Egyptian Temples with all kinds of accessories which one can suppose Egyptian Magnificence decorated the grand Monuments.--Second and last plate of the kind. One has not heard intended to give in this plate, nor in that which follows, a restoration any authority would not sufficiently justify, but merely a decoration where the idea has come to the author, at the view of a number of fragments of the Sphinx, located near the Pyramids. Elsewhere, all the pieces of this decoration, except in their whole, at least in their details, do not have Egyptian Character

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Temples égyptiens, avec tous les genres d'accessoires dont on pourrait supposer que la magnificence égyptienne décorait ces grandes Monumens.--Deuxième et dernière planche de ce genre.--On n'a pas entendu donner dans cette planche, ni dans celle qui sui
Series/Book Title: Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine..., Vol. 3

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1798

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/194802

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

plate: 38.3 x 69.3 cm (15 1/16 x 27 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

M23730.3.97

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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