Late in his career, the landscape painter Harpignies made repeated visits to Menton, a resort town on the French Riviera. This "souvenir from Menton," as inscribed on the reverse, offers only a glimpse of the blue Mediterranean, focusing instead on the play of light across the group of trees. A practitioner of watercolor since the mid-century, the artist used nuanced tonal values to convey a range
Roberts traveled up the Nile in 1838 and reached Abu Simbel in Nubia on November 8. One of the local monuments he sketched during three days in the area was the small Roman era temple at Dendur. After returning to London in 1839, the artist created detailed watercolors that Louis Haghe used to create lithographs. Eighty-five Egyptian subjects, published 1848–49, included "The Temple of Dandour, Nu
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