An Orientalist enframes Cairo: in contrast to the frontispiece of the Description de l'Égypte, Pascal Coste's panorama of 1839 centers on Cairo and reduces pharaonic antiquities (the Heliopolis obelisk and several pyramid groups) to framing devices. In Pascal Coste, Architecture arabe ou monumens [sic] du Caire mesuré et dessinées, de 1818 à 1825 (Paris, 1839).
  • Figure 38. An Orientalist enframes Cairo: in contrast to the frontispiece of the Description de l'Égypte, Pascal Coste's panorama of 1839 centers on Cairo and reduces pharaonic antiquities (the Heliopolis obelisk and several pyramid groups) to framing devices. In Pascal Coste, Architecture arabe ou monumens [sic] du Caire mesuré et dessinées, de 1818 à 1825 (Paris, 1839).

An Orientalist enframes Cairo: in contrast to the frontispiece of the Description de l'Égypte, Pascal Coste's panorama of 1839 centers on Cairo and reduces pharaonic antiquities (the Heliopolis obelisk and several pyramid groups) to framing devices. In Pascal Coste, Architecture arabe ou monumens [sic] du Caire mesuré et dessinées, de 1818 à 1825 (Paris, 1839).

From Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I by Donald Malcolm Reid

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