1847 Jomard map ARABIA

Map from steel engraving titled CARTE DE L'ARABIE ET DES PAYS CIRCONVOISINS (DRESSEE D'APRES LES DOCUMENTS LES PLUS RECENTS Pour l'Intelligence de l'Histoire de l'Egypte sous MOHAMMED-ALY et des marches des troupes égyptiennes, par Mr JOMARD, Membre de l'Institut de France, by Edme François Jomard, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size 25 x 21 cm, approx. image size 21 x 18 cm.

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Edme-François Jomard

Edme-François Jomard (French: [ʒɔmaʁ]; 1777 – September 22, 1862) was a French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He edited the Description de L'Égypte and was a member of the Institut d'Egypte established by Napoleon. He supervised the educational and cultural mission sent to France from Egypt by Muhammad Ali of Egypt.

Life

He was educated at the collège Mazarin, the École nationale des ponts et chaussées and the École polytechnique. He took part in Napoleon's commission to Egypt. He later worked at the Bibliothèque nationale.

Description de l'Égypte

The publication of the landmark, outsized Description de l'Égypte (Description of Egypt) was decreed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802. This seminal publication on Egyptology was a collaboration effort of some 150 prominent French scientist and scholars and 2,000 technicians and artists. It is the record of Bonaparte's Commission des Sciences et des Arts that accompanied the ill-fated French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798-1801)."

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