1846
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Kom-Ombo is a 1846 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows broken stone blocks scattered in the desert. Some pieces are stacked like ruins, with tall columns and carved details still visible. A tiny figure stands near the center, giving a sense of how huge the stones are. The title at the bottom says it’s the remains of a temple portico at Kom Ombo. The artist drew it exactly as he saw it, with no fancy lighting tricks. Next, check out Romanticism to see how artists used ruins to tell stories.
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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