Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale
1908
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Amada Nubia is a 1908 watercolor by Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a tall, golden-skinned figure holding a staff and standing in front of a small altar. The figure wears a headdress with two tall feathers and a sun disk above it. Behind the altar, a bird perches on top, and another sits on the ground near a boat. The bottom of the scene has hieroglyph-like symbols and a few animals, including a bird with outstretched wings. The artist painted this in the early 1900s, copying an ancient Egyptian temple scene. The colors are soft and the lines are precise, giving it a calm, almost faded look. If you like this style, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like it.
A watercolour drawing by Walter Frederick Tyndale titled *Amada Nubia*, created in 1908, depicts the goddess Seshat alongside Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, illustrating the ceremonial marking of a temple foundation. The work likely served as preparatory material for a proposed follow-up to Tyndale’s 1907 publication *Below the Cataracts*, published by Heinemann. Tyndale, who traveled to Egypt multiple times between 1905 and 1911, exhibited his Egyptian-themed drawings at the Leicester Galleries in 1907 and 1912. The watercolour was later sold at Sotheby’s in 1977 as part of a collection formerly…
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Walter Frederick Roope Tyndale (1855–1943) was a British watercolourist of landscapes, architecture and street scenes, book illustrator and travel writer.
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