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`Sand Stone Hills of the Mokattam Range "Sunset" between Beni-souef & Golosena'
`Sand Stone Hills of the Mokattam Range "Sunset" between Beni-souef & Golosena' is a watercolor work on paper by the Impressionist artist George de Sausmarez. It dates from 1855 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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A watercolour by George de Sausmarez from 1855 depicts the sandstone hills of the Mokattam Range at sunset, situated between Beni-Souef and Golosena.
A watercolour by George de Sausmarez from 1855 depicts the sandstone hills of the Mokattam Range at sunset, situated between Beni-Souef and Golosena. The work is one of 45 watercolours mounted on 35 supports, forming part of an album documenting views in Egypt and Nubia. The album was created during or after an 1855 journey along the Nile, both upstream and downstream.
It is housed in a half-bound crimson morocco music binder with an "EGYPT" stamp on the front cover.
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Artist
George de Sausmarez painted watercolors of Egypt’s Nile in the 1850s, recording river scenes and landmarks with quick, transparent washes.
View of the Nile
`View down the Nile. Pasha's Factory S.of Daroot-el Shereef. Upper Egypt'
Album
`Cataracts of Assouan. Midway. - Our Candjia Moored for the Night - On the Nile'
`Approach to Philae'
Biban-el-Molook, or Tombs of the Kings. Belzoni's Tomb. Thebes
`Gournou & Hill of the Kings' Tombs - Thebes'
`Stabl-Antar. Ancient Egyptian Cave near Siout. Upper Egypt'
`Kusr-é-Syad. Opposite Choenoboscion. Upper Egypt'
`Beni-Souef "On the Nile"
`Gibel-el-dab'
`Castle of Ibreem or Premnis, Nubia. Taken from our Boat'
`Minieh On the Nile'
`Temple of Kom-Ombos. "Thebaid" from Stern of Boat "5. knots an hour" "On the Nile"
The Temple of Isis and Kiosk of Trajan on the Island of Philae
`Quarries "el. Masareh." Whence the Stones for the Pyramids were dug. On the Nile'
Suez from the Ruins of Colsum
Ancient Ruins in the land of Edom above the bed of a valley and Arab Date gardens
`Sakia or Persian wheel Nubia'