Pharoah's Seat, with the sacred Island of Philae [pencil title on reverse]
By Owen Jones [pencil on reverse]. [n.d., c.1830.] Watercolour on card. Sheet 190 x 550mm (7½ x 21½"). Wear to edges. A view of the Egyptian temples in their original positions on the island of Philae, before the building of the Aswan Dam. The viewpoint is the same as the lithograph 'Philae - Looking South' in 'Views on the Nile from Cairo to the Second Cataract' by Jones & Jules Goury, 1843, with changes to the rocks and staffage.
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