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Length of furnishing fabric: Monuments of Egypt

Les Monuments d'Egypte

Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738–1815)
After: Louis-Francois Cassas (French, 18th century)

French

about 1808

Object Place: Jouy-en-Josas, France

Medium/Technique Cotton; roller-printed in brown

Dimensions 95 x 249 cm (37 3/8 x 98 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Stanford Calderwood

Accession Number1973.102

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles

ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionCotton, copperplate printed in brown. One selvedge, some tears. Design shows pyramids, obelisks, fortresses, pylons, sphinxes, camels and Egyptian figures dressed as philosophers against a ground of squares. "Derived from plates in the Description de l'Egypte commissioned in 1809 by the emperor from the French Instite at Cairo" (in Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris)