The image is titled “L’Infanterie Francaise en Egypte” (Le General L’Asne converted to Ibrahim Bey) and is signed “etched by JsGillray from the Original intercepted Drawing. pub. March 12, 1799 by H. Humphrey 27 S.James Street. James Gillray is a British etcher and caricaturist. He was born in 1757 and died in 1815. He was considered one of the great caricaturists of his day, and was a member of the Royal Academy.
Side 2 says “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, ~~ The Situations in which the Artist occasionally represents his Countrymen are a sufficient proof of an Impartiality and Fidelity, which cannot be too much commended; indeed we must suspect that his view of the flagitious absurdities of his Countrymen in Egypt is nearly similar to ours, and that he took this method of pourtraying them under the seal of confidence to his correspondent at Paris.