1848
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Pyramids of Geezeh is a 1848 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see three sandy pyramids under a pale sky, camels resting, and tiny figures in robes. This print is from a travel book that helped spark Europe’s Egypt craze. People back home bought these images to decorate their parlors and tombs. The pyramids look almost like stage props—clean, dramatic, and a little too perfect. If you like how travel pictures shaped 19th-century taste, look up the subject “england, 19th century.”
Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, prints, paintings, and photographs, like Louis Haghe’s Egypt and Nubia series, brought back by artists who voyaged to Egypt, inspired American and European artists, architects, and designers to emulate ancient Egyptian motifs and styles. Egyptomania blossomed through the 1800s and can be seen in architecture around cities like Washington, DC, and in the interiors of aristocratic homes, as well as in funerary monuments, such as in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Looking back at these creations provides an interesting historical groundwork for…
Louis Haghe was appointed Lithographer to the Queen in 1838.
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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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