The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Mosque of Sultan Hassan, from the Great Square of the Rameyleh
1849
(British, 1806–1885)
published by
after David Roberts
Sheet: 43.8 x 60.3 cm (17 1/4 x 23 3/4 in.); Image: 32.8 x 48.6 cm (12 15/16 x 19 1/8 in.)
Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.178
Catalogue raisonné: Abbey 272:124
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The Mosque of Sultan Hassan was built near the Citadel of Cairo between 1356 and 1363.Description
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 the Near East––were appreciated for their brilliant color and large scale.- (Otto Schreiber)?–2012John Bonebrake [1918–2011], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art2012–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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