Mosque of Sultan Hassan at Cairo
1830
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1830
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Mosque of Sultan Hassan at Cairo is a 1830 by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a grand mosque with a large dome and two tall minarets. The building is made of stone blocks and has many windows and arches. In the foreground, people are walking around and sitting near a small structure. The artist used a lot of detail to draw the intricate designs on the mosque's walls and towers. The drawing is done in a style that was popular during the Romanticism movement, which emphasized emotion and beauty. If you like this drawing, you might also want to learn more about the Romanticism movement.
A drawing of the Mosque of Sultan Hassan in Cairo, created around 1830 as part of a set of seven sketches intended for an illustration in Michael Russell’s 1831 book *View of Ancient and Modern Egypt*. The sketches were adapted from plates in the *Description de l'Égypte*, a multi-volume work published between 1809 and 1822 based on observations from the French military expedition to Egypt. The engravings in Russell’s book were credited to Branston, and this particular drawing was formerly attributed to Joseph Schranz.
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