1838
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia: Volume I - No. 20, Great Hall at Karnak, Thebes is a 1838 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a row of tall stone columns with flat tops and carvings on them. Between the columns, you can see a path leading into a dim space. In the foreground, a person sits on a low wall, leaning against a donkey. The light hits the columns from one side, making shadows stretch long. The carvings on the columns look like ancient writing, maybe a record of names or stories. This image is a sketch of a real place, not a painting from long ago. Next, check out Romanticism to see how artists like this one used emotion and adventure in their work.
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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