Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"
Medium
oil on paper, mounted on paper and canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 15.2 × 23.3 cm · framed: 25 × 33 × 6.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw
Accession Number
1965.310
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, prints, paintings, and photographs, like Louis Haghe’s Egypt and Nubia series, brought back by artists who voyaged to Egypt, inspired American and European artists, architects, and designers to emulate ancient Egyptian motifs and styles. Egyptomania blossomed through the 1800s and can be seen in architecture around cities like Washington, DC, and in the interiors of aristocratic homes, as well as in funerary monuments, such as in Lake View Cemetery in Cle...