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Battle of the Pyramids
Dirk Langendijk (1748–1805), pen, brown ink, watercolour, over pencil, 1803
Dirk Langendijk was a prolific draughtsman specializing in military scenes with numerous small figures. His style was appropriately pithy. Yet although several military encounters took place in the Netherlands during the Revolutionary period of 1789–1799, he based most of his depictions on his own imagination. It was at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798 that Napoleon’s French army defeated the Egyptian Mamluks.
- Artwork typedrawing, aquarel
- Object numberRP-T-1954-74
- Dimensionsheight 540 mm x width 840 mm
- Physical characteristicspen in bruin, penseel in kleuren in waterverf, potlood