Cleveland Museum of Art

Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Mosque of Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Rameyleh

Louis HagheLinkedCulture matchlcp-5386dbd57371

Date

1849

Medium

color lithograph

Culture

England

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Object ID

169939

By the mid-1800s, the complexities of printing in numerous colors had been mastered, culminating in one of the high points of European printmaking. The plates drawn by Louis Haghe, which copy the watercolors that David Roberts made in Egypt, are examples of color lithography. Haghe, a Scottish topographical and architectural artist, spent a year traveling across this ancient land in 1838. The resulting prints––the first comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscapes, and people of the Near East––were appreciated for their brilliant color and large scale. The Mosque of Sultan Hassan was built near the Citadel of Cairo between 1356 and 1363.

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