1847
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Fragments of the Great Colossi at the Memnonium, Thebes is a 1847 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, depicting Ruins, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a detailed print of ancient Egyptian ruins, with big stone statues. The print is special because it shows a place that was hard for Europeans to visit at the time. It's based on watercolors made by another artist, David Roberts, who traveled to Egypt. Check out the work of artist Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885) for more images like this.
By the mid-19th century, the complexities of printing in numerous colors had been mastered, culminating in one of the high points of European printmaking. The plates drawn by Haghe, which copy the watercolors that David Roberts made in Egypt, are exquisite examples of color lithography. Egypt was a distant, mysterious country for Europeans and Haghe, a Scottish topographical and architectural artist who spent the year of 1838 traveling across this ancient land. The resulting prints—the first comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscapes, and people of the Near East—were…
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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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