Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Dreams of Egypt. Close your eyes and you could be out on the Nile in one of those tourist houseboats listening to the crocodiles chomp. Plates from the 1848 “Egypt & Nubia From Drawings Made On The Spot”. David Roberts, watercolorist. Louis Haghe, lithographer.
“Statues of Memnon at Thebes, during the Inundation.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.252“Thebes, Great Hall at Karnac.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.187“Interior of the Temple of Aboo-Simbel.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.261“Portico of the Temple Edfou, Upper Egypt.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.148“Libyan Chain of Mountains, from the Temple of Luxor.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.166“Hagar Setsilis.”Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via
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