Two 19th centruy paintings of the Colossi of Memnon – Scribe in the House of Life: Hannah Pethen Ph.D.

In the Autumn, I reviewed the excellent and very interesting exhibition Alan Sorrell ‘Nubia’ at the Beecroft Art Gallery in Southend on sea and I subsequently followed up with post about the location of Sorrell’s ‘Marea’, subject of his paintings number 45 and 46. That exhibition also inspired this post, because in addition to the rather wonderful paintings by Sorrell, it included a painting of the Colossi of Memnon by Edward Lear from 1854. This is the only painting in the exhibition that is not by Sorrell, and it is also from the 19th century, making it a chronological…