Sphinx Michael Russell 1831-32

Pyramids and Sphinx—Sunsetting, Michael Russell (1832) — Open full-size image.

A woodcutting from Michael Russell’s “A View of ancient and modern Egypt: an outline of its natural history” dating to 1831/2. The image borrows details from an image first published in Volume 5 of the plates of antiquities from “Description de l’Égypte” (1822) which was based on illustrations made during Naopoleon’s Egyptian expedition in 1798.

Digitised image: From The New York Public Library — source record.

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