Egyptian sketches : extracted from the portfolio of an ingenious young artist, attached to the Institut National at Cairo, which was found on board a tartane intercepted on its voyage to Marseilles / Js. Gillray fect.

Print shows two sphinxes flanking the central cartouche framing the text of the frontispiece. They wear cocked hats with tricolour cockades, and have rapacious claws. Behind the inscription is a pyramid up which climbs an ape dressed as a French officer holding up a large bonnet-rouge (such as was then carried on the masts of French men-of-war) in order to place it on the apex. In his sash is a blood-stained dagger. A nude man, symbolizing Folly, wearing a fool's cap, clutches his coat-tail, holding up a cap and bells, the cap on an ass's head. Large clouds, and a line of desert with pyramids on the horizon, form a background.