A very unusual oil painting on canvas displayed in its original glazed and gilded oak frame with an embossed copper emblem of the winged sun pinned to the top. There are several indistinct handwritten inscriptions on the back of the stretcher including the title. The frame is very much in the Arts and Crafts style so would date the picture from the late 19th or early part of the 20th century. The inscriptions are written in English, and the manner in which the picture is painted suggests the artist is a competent amateur, perhaps an archeologist or tourist recording important historical sights in Egypt.
Overall the condition is very good.
Canvas: 24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.5 cm.)
Frame: 31 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (80 x 55 cm.)
The temples of Karnak and Luxor were in ancient times part of the upper Egyptian city Thebes, which was over a long time the capital and the cultural center of the Pharaoh’s empire and is known as the city of the hundred gateways. The avenue of ram-headed sphinxes line either side of the entrance to the temple. The painting may have been taken at a time when excavations were taking place
The embossed copper plaque on the frame represents a sun or solar disk in the center with spread wings on either side. In many cases, as with ours, the winged sun also has Egyptian cobras flanking it. In Egypt the symbol represented royalty, power, and divinity.
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Antique Number: SA1081239
Dateline of this antique is 1900
Height is 80cm (31.5inches)
Width is 55cm (21.7inches)
Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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