Original Antique Engraving - Dominique Vivant Denon - Egyptian Life - F3 31 cm x 23 cm

31 cm x 23 cm

' The work was published in London in 1862

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Original Antique Engraving - Dominique Vivant Denon - Egyptian Life - F3 31 cm x 23 cmThis antique engraving is from the Dominique Vivant Denons Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute gypte, pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte (Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt during the Campaigns of Bonaparte). The work was published by Samuel Bagster in London, 1809. At [Napoleon] Bonaparte's invitation Denon eagerly accepted an opportunity to join the expedition to Egypt (1798), and while there accompanied General Louis Charles Antoine Desaix up and down