Crusaders Castle Graia Gulph of Akabah
1857
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1857
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Crusaders Castle Graia Gulph of Akabah is a 1857 watercolor by Maria Harriett Mathias, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting is called Crusaders Castle Graia Gulph of Akabah. It was made by an amateur artist, but don't let that fool you. Maria Harriett Matthias was actually very skilled with watercolors. Not much is known about her life, partly because she was a woman and didn't get much attention. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to learn more about this and other artworks.
A watercolour by Maria Harriett Mathias depicts Crusaders Castle Graia, located on Gazirat Faraun (Pharaoh’s Island) near the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, now in Jordan. The fortress, originally built by Baldwin I of Jerusalem in the 12th century and later known as Saladin’s Castle after its recapture in 1182, underwent Mamluk and Ottoman modifications. The painting was created during Mathias’s 1856–57 tour of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon, and is part of a rare album of her views of the region.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Maria Harriet Mathias painted delicate watercolors of the Middle East in 1857. The five works in this set show views from Egypt and Lebanon—Edfoo’s temple walls, cedar groves, a boat trip near Asouan, the skyline of…
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