Egyptian sketches [graphic] : extracted from the portfolio of an ingenious young artist attached to the Institut National at Cairo which was found on board a Tartane intercepted on its voyage to Marseilles / Js. Gillray fect.
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Description
- Title
- Egyptian sketches [graphic] : extracted from the portfolio of an ingenious young artist attached to the Institut National at Cairo which was found on board a Tartane intercepted on its voyage to Marseilles / Js. Gillray fect.
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher. - Copyright Date
- [12 March 1799]
- Abstract
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"Emblematical frontispiece to a set of six prints on the Expedition to Egypt, see BMSats 9356-61. Two sphinxes, back to back on a stone slab (on which are the signature and imprint), support a stone ornament inscribed with the title ... The sphinxes wear cocked hats with tricolour cockades, and have rapacious claws. Behind the inscription is a pyramid up which climbs an ape dressed as a (ragged) French officer holding up a large bonnet-rouge (such as was then carried on the masts of French men-of-war) in order to place it on the apex. In his sash is a blood-stained dagger. A nude man, symbolizing Folly, wearing a fool's cap, clutches his coat-tail, holding up a cap and bells, the cap on an ass's head. Large clouds, and a line of desert with pyramids on the horizon, form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Frontispiece to a set of six plates on the French Expedition to Egypt, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member.
Thirteen lines of text below title: The situations in which the artist occasionally represents his countrymen are a sufficient proof of an impartiality and fidelity, which cannot be too much commended ...
Title from text in image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 35 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9355
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 256
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8185081
- Object ID (OID)
- 11858755