1846
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Sphinx, Pyramids of Gezeeh is a 1846 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows the Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Gezeeh. It's based on drawings by an artist who traveled to the Middle East. The drawings were turned into color lithographs, which helped people in England learn about ancient sites before photography was widely used. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885)
The invention of photography was announced in 1839, but photographers did not arrive in Egypt until around 1850. Prior to that, general knowledge about the ancient sites came from writings and reproductions of the paintings and drawings of adventurous artists. Roberts, the first British artist to produce a series of Egyptian views, traveled through the Middle East in 1838–40. Back in England, he worked with Haghe to translate his drawings into color lithographs, which were published between 1842 and 1849 as an opulent series of portfolios. A stimulating mixture of documentation and…
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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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