Egypt and Nubia: Volume III–No. 38, Mosque of Sultan Hassan from the Great Square of the Rameyleh
Medium
color lithograph
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of J. Byers Hays
Accession Number
1953.535
Tags
male
About this artwork
By the mid-1800s, the complexities of printing in numerous colors had been mastered, culminating in one of the high points of European printmaking. The plates drawn by Louis Haghe, which copy the watercolors that David Roberts made in Egypt, are examples of color lithography. Haghe, a Scottish topographical and architectural artist, spent a year traveling across this ancient land in 1838. The resulting prints––the first comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscapes, and people of th...