Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Mosque of Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Rameyleh

1849

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanticism Early 19th Century Architectural

Dominant colour

Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Mosque of Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Rameyleh is a 1849 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Who painted this?: Louis Haghe
When & what style?: 1849 · Romanticism
Where can I see it?: Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

You see a tall mosque rising behind a dusty square, its towering arches and minarets drawn with sharp, colorful lines. This print copies a watercolor by David Roberts, who traveled Egypt in 1838. Haghe turned Roberts’ sketches into bright lithographs—prints made by drawing on stone. The colors are crisp, almost like a postcard, showing how far printing had come by the 1800s. If you like this, look up the technique: color lithography.