Doorway Through an Inner Enclosure, Angkor Wat, Cambodia
1880
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1880
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a stone doorway in a jungle ruin, vines curling over the lintel and sunlight slanting through the gap. This photo-like drawing was made by a French explorer around 1880, just after Angkor Wat was rediscovered. The artist stood in the heat, trying to record every crack and root before the jungle swallowed the temple again. No one knows their name. Look up other 19th-century drawings of India next.
