Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Fragments of the Great Colossi at the Memnonium, Thebes
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 34.8 × 51 cm · sheet: 43.4 × 60.4 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2012.149
Tags
male
About this artwork
By the mid-19th century, the complexities of printing in numerous colors had been mastered, culminating in one of the high points of European printmaking. The plates drawn by Haghe, which copy the watercolors that David Roberts made in Egypt, are exquisite examples of color lithography. Egypt was a distant, mysterious country for Europeans and Haghe, a Scottish topographical and architectural artist who spent the year of 1838 traveling across this ancient land. The resulting prints—the first com...