- Title:
The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt
- Date:
- 1849
- Medium:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (36.8 x 54.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown, lower left: "David Roberts R.A. 1849"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.534
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.534FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | architecture | book | colossal | columns (architectural elements) | Egyptian | Egyptian architecture | frescoes | genre subject | gods | hall | hieroglyphics | hypostyle hall | men | reading | robes | sarcophaguses | sculpture | temple | turbans | visitors
- Associated Places:
- Abu Simbel | As Said | Egypt
- Access:
- On view in the galleries
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1018
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Sharjah Art Museum, 2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Pera Museum, 2008-09-26 - 2009-01-11)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31)
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 190-191, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 48-49, fig. 50, ND467 C67 (YCBA)
Colleen Manassa, Echoes of Egypt, conjuring the land of the pharaohs, an exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, April 13, 2013 through January 4, 2014 , Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2013, p. 62, DT61 .E31 2013 (YCBA)
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [101], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577
The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 17, V 1879 (YCBA)