1838
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia: Volume I - Frontispiece, View under the Grand Portico, Philae is a 1838 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a grand stone hallway with towering columns. The columns have carvings of figures and lotus-shaped tops. At the far end, a dark doorway opens into another space. A few people stand or sit near the entrance, looking small against the huge walls. The carvings on the columns look like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. This drawing was made in 1838 by an artist who traveled to Egypt. Next, look up Romanticism to see how this style shaped how people saw faraway places.
Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a lithographer and watercolourist from the Netherlands and then the United Kingdom.
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