1838
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia: Volume II - No. 34, Entrance to the Tombs of the Kings of Thebes, Biban-el-molook is a 1838 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, depicting Afghanistan, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a dark tunnel leading into Egyptian tombs. The light hits the stone walls just enough to show carved hieroglyphs. A lone figure stands in the middle. Haghe never visited Egypt. He used drawings and prints to make this scene. The tomb walls look real, but they’re based on secondhand details. It’s like seeing through someone else’s eyes. Look up Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885).
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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