Egyptian Landscape
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Object Details
- Artist
- C. Morgan McIlhenney, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died 1904
- Luce Center Label
- This painting shows a monument on Philae Island in Egypt known as Trajan’s Kiosk, or Pharaoh’s Bed, which was built for the Roman emperor Trajan. During the nineteenth century, magazines such as Harper’s New Monthly often published engravings of foreign monuments and landscapes with articles on travel. Charles McIlhenney, like many other artists, may have painted ideal landscapes of distant countries based on these illustrations.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. William Henry Holmes
- n.d.
- Object number
- 1930.12.41
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 12 x 9 3/8 in. (30.5 x 23.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 11A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\tree\palm tree
- Landscape\Egypt
- Architecture Exterior\classical\temple
- Record ID
- saam_1930.12.41
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7992634a3-4367-4545-8445-19ad6e2eea03
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