- Title
- A VIEW of the ANCIENT CITY of ALEXANDRIA = VUE de l'ANCIENNE ALEXANDRE. : To General Baird and the Officers of the Indian Army who underwent the Fatigue of Marching across the great Desert to join the English Army at Alexandria this Print is respectfully dedicated by thei devoted humble Servant Edwd Orme. = Cette Plance est dediee respectueusement du General Baird et aux Officiers de lArmee de lInde, qui eurent a traverser le grand Desert entre la Mer Rouge et lEgypte pour joinder lArmee Anglaise a Alexandrie par leur tres humble Serviteur Edouard Orme. / Wm Porter del ; H. Merke Aquatinta.
- Creator
- Merke, Henri, printmaker.
- Publication details
- [London] : Published & sold March 1 1804 by Edwd Orme His Majesty's Printseller, 59 Old Bond Street, London., [March 1 1804]
- Physical details
- 1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; sheet 55 x 76 cm
- Description
- Figures, soldiers and horses by a circular tent in the foreground; the city of Alexandria in the middle ground; ships on the water in the distance. Titles divided by a scene depicting 'The Indian Army on their March through the Desert'.
- Place
- Alexandria (Egypt)
- Other persons
- Porter, William Warren, 1776-1804, artist.
- Shelfmark
- Maps K.Top.117.54.b.4.
