Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia (1846): Art, History and Details

Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia (1846) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885); F. G. Moon (British, 1797–1871); David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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 Cleveland, Ohio. Looking back at these creations provides an interesting historical groundwork for debating who has the right to interpret Egyptian motifs and styles.

Object facts

• Title: Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia
• Date: 1846
• Creator attribution: Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885); F. G. Moon (British, 1797–1871); David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 43.7 x 60.3 cm (17 3/16 x 23 3/4 in.); Image: 32.8 x 48.9 cm (12 15/16 x 19 1/4 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2012.256

A detail from the museum

Louis Haghe was appointed Lithographer to the Queen in 1838.

Collection credit

Bequest of John Bonebrake

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