1848
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Hermont, Ancient Hermonthis is a 1848 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows broken stone ruins under a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a few scattered blocks and a half-buried pillar lie on the ground. Two people stand near the ruins—one walks away, the other sits leaning on a long stick. In the distance, tall columns and crumbling walls stretch across a flat landscape, with a lone tower rising behind them. The artist added fine details to the ruins, like cracks in the stone and the folds of the people’s robes. The sky looks dramatic, with thick clouds casting soft shadows. Look up Romanticism next to see how artists used emotion and nature 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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