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- Title:
- Egyptian Sketches
- Date:
- 1799
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
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- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center: "EGYPTIAN SKETCHES, | extracted from the portfolio | of an ingenious young Artist attatched | to the Institut National at Cairo, which | was found on bound a Tartane intercepted on its voyage to Marseilles."; lower center: "The situations in which the Artist | occaisonally represents his Countrymen | are a sufficient proof of an Impartial- | -ity and Fidelity, which cannot be too | much commended; - indeed we must sus- | -pect that his view of the flagitious absurd- | -ities of his Countrymen in Egypt, is | nearly similar to ours, and that he | took his method of potraying | them, under the seal of | confidence to his | correspondent at PARIS."; lower left: "Js. Gillray fect."; lower right: "London. Publish'd March 12th, 1799 by | H. Humphrey N°. 27 St. Jamess Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.12.264
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:53959
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