• The Sphinx

Creator:

• Samuel Birch (1813-1885), descriptions; Jules Goury (1803-1834), drawing; George Moore, lithographer

Description:

• Lithography, by George Moore; from Sketches taken in 1832-3, by Owen Jones and the late Jules Goury: with Historical Notices of the Monuments, by S. Birch, Esq., senior assistant in the department of antiquity, British Museum. London. From Views on the Nile: from Cairo to the Second Cataract London: Graves and Warmsley, 1843

Curatorial Notes:

• The years 1832-1834 produced several concurrent artistic travels: David Roberts in Spain, William Allen in Africa, John Frederick Lewis in Spain as well as architects Owen Jones and Jules Goury in Egypt. The result of Jones’ and Goury’s effort in Egypt is an almost scientific work, providing commentary from the leading authority on Egypt at the British Museum. Contemporary opinion considered the renderings of “beauty and interest”; however, other writers considered views of Egypt “picturesque” in the sense of “characteristic, [and] attractive.”

Photography:

• David Kelly Crow

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/2227mw024

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical