1846
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: General View of the Island of Philae, Nubia is a 1846 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a quiet desert island with old stone temples and ruins. In the foreground, a small group of people sits near broken columns and a half-buried structure. Palm trees dot the landscape, and a body of water separates the island from the distant hills. The artist focused on the quiet, almost forgotten feel of the place—no crowds, just ruins and empty space. This was made in the 1800s by someone who traveled to record these sites. Next, look up Romanticism to see how artists used travel and ruins to tell stories.
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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