Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds
1850
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Canja on the Nile near Qasr Ibrim, Nubia, flying a White Ensign is a 1850 watercolor by Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds, a Orientalism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a long, narrow boat sailing on the Nile. The boat has two tall sails and a flag with a red cross on it. People are crowded on deck, and the shore has rocky cliffs and distant mountains. The flag looks like a White Ensign, which was used by British ships. The artist focused on the boat’s movement and the bright, flat colors of the desert landscape. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of this artist’s work.
A watercolour drawing by Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds depicts a canja vessel navigating the Nile near Qasr Ibrim in Nubia, flying a White Ensign. The work reflects Linant’s participation in Nile expeditions alongside English travelers, including a former Royal Navy captain, around 1827–29.
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Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha was an explorer of Egypt and, as the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831–1869, an influential engineer of the Suez Canal.
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