1838
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia: Volume I - No. 34, Temple of Edfou. Ancient Appolinopolis, Upper Egypt is a 1838 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a tall, flat-roofed temple with carved lines on its walls. In front, a few small figures walk near a low hut. The background has distant hills and a flat, sandy landscape. The temple’s walls are covered in what look like symbols or writing, stacked high. The artist used soft shading to show depth, not bright colors. Look up chiaroscuro next to see how this technique works.
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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