Design for an Escutcheon with Allusions to Egypt, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 16951750, Pen and ink, grey wash, black chalk on laid paper, A fountain is obliquely shown, the back of which is formed by shell containing an ovoid as the field of the escutcheon. It is topped by the head of a lion. Nile is seated, reaching with his right arm over a sphinx toward a jar from which water pours. At the right of him are two children and a dragon. Water is shown in the right foreground. Views of the interior of his temple at right, of three nymphs of sources and a palm at left., France, 172550, ornament, Drawing, Drawing.

Design for an Escutcheon with Allusions to Egypt, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 16951750, Pen and ink, grey wash, black chalk on laid paper, A fountain is obliquely shown, the back of which is formed by shell containing an ovoid as the field of the escutcheon. It is topped by the head of a lion. Nile is seated, reaching with his right arm over a sphinx toward a jar from which water pours. At the right of him are two children and a dragon. Water is shown in the right foreground. Views of the interior of his temple at right, of three nymphs of sources and a palm at left., France, 172550, ornament, Drawing, Drawing

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