Sphinx Description de L’Egypte 2
A panoramic view of the pyramids of Giza from the south-east, published in the second edition of Description de l’Égypte, Antiquités, Volume V, Plate 7 (1826). The head of the Great Sphinx is small but visible towards the far right of the engraving. This reproduction comes from the David Rumsey Map Collection; its central page fold has been conservatively repaired. The individual image page carries the collection credit and CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence notice.
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Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University Libraries. Digital reproduction of Description de l’Égypte, Antiquités, vol. V, Plate 7, second edition (1826). Original historical engraving: public domain.
Source-image licence notice: The David Rumsey Map Collection identifies its digital reproductions with Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Modification disclosed: the central page fold has been locally repaired; the remainder of the scan was preserved. This image credit and licence notice apply to this Plate 7 reproduction, not to the entire website.