1846
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia is a 1846 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a towering sandstone temple carved into a cliff, its giant statues staring across the Nile. This print was made for a book that brought ancient Egypt to Victorian living rooms. People who never left England could suddenly walk through Abu Simbel in their imaginations. The temple was almost lost to flooding in the 1960s—this image is one of the few records of how it looked before rescue. Look up the subject of 19th-century England next.
Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, prints, paintings, and photographs, like Louis Haghe’s Egypt and Nubia series, brought back by artists who voyaged to Egypt, inspired American and European artists, architects, and designers to emulate ancient Egyptian motifs and styles. Egyptomania blossomed through the 1800s and can be seen in architecture around cities like Washington, DC, and in the interiors of aristocratic homes, as well as in funerary monuments, such as in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Looking back at these creations provides an interesting historical groundwork for…
Louis Haghe was appointed Lithographer to the Queen in 1838.
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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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