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Egyptian Landscape
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About this work
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineEgyptian Landscape. n.d.. C. Morgan McIlhenney, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died 1904. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. William Henry Holmes. CC0.
