Original engraving. Temple of Karnak in Thebes around 1800. Chalcography from the Louvre - Egypt

• a rare and original archaeological engraving from the chalcography of the Louvre! • the temple of karnak in thebes as it was around 1800. • this beautiful, very precise plate has a sheet size of 76 x 56 cm and has an engraved part of 64 x 42 cm. • excellent general condition, clean and fresh copy, without foxing. Central engraved part in perfect condition except for a small barely visible scratch on the left side above the 2 characters, • the original plate used was produced around 1800 during Napoleon I's Egyptian campaign and is part of the famous series -the description of Egypt - this plate must have been printed around 1990. • the drawing is by Jacques-Marie le père (1763-1841) and the engraving by Coquet. • the engraving shows a beautiful perspective view of the columns of the palace. The complete text of the plate: a. Flight. III Thebes. Karnak. Pl. 42. Interior perspective view of the palace, taken from the east. • this plate is authenticated by a dry stamp in relief at the bottom of the work. Reference 4762 / km004762. It belongs to the volume: antiquities, volume III. [flight. 3] plate 42. • I offer other plates and lithographs from the same series. Check out my store. • protected delivery in tube. • contact me if you want more information or for a group purchase. The Karnak religious complex — called the Karnak Temple, or simply Karnak — comprises a large collection of ruins of temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings located north of Thebes, now the city of Luxor, Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile. The Karnak complex, rebuilt and developed over more than 2,000 years by successive pharaohs, from the Middle Kingdom to the Ptolemaic era. It is the largest religious complex in all of antiquity. It was dedicated to the Theban triad with the god Amun-Re at its head. The complex was connected to the Luxor Temple by the Alley of the Sphinxes.

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