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Egyptian Landscape
C. Morgan McIlhenney (born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died 1904)
n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 12 x 9 3/8 in. (30.5 x 23.9 cm)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. William Henry Holmes
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
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.
