Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Entrance to the Tombs of the Kings of Thebes, Bab-El-Malouk
Louis HagheLinkedCulture matchlcp-5386dbd57371
- Date
- 1848
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 169910
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A desert landscape with rocky cliffs and a group of people sitting on the ground.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
By the mid-19th century, the complexities of printing in numerous colors had been mastered, culminating in one of the high points of European printmaking. The plates drawn by Haghe, which copy the watercolors that David Roberts made in Egypt, are exquisite examples of color lithography. Egypt was a distant, mysterious country for Europeans and Haghe, a Scottish topographical and architectural artist who spent the year of 1838 traveling across this ancient land. The resulting prints—the first comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscapes, and people of the Near East—were especially appreciated for their brilliant color and large scale.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of John Bonebrake
- Provenance
- [Otto Schreiber]
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