maker/reader could see everything and yet not be seen. From that vantage
point, the map maker/reader is at a precisely defined distance from the
subject and the subject is rendered an object.”^28 To this, theDescription
adds the visual veracity afforded by perspectival construction and new
Figure 34Anonymous, frontispiece, vol. 1, fromDescription de l’Égypteby M. Jomard,
1809 – 1828. The New York Public Library Collections b14212718.
(^28) Godlewska, 1995 : 17.
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