Name: HENRY RODERICK NEWMAN (AMERICAN, 1843-1917)
Brand: The Greater Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt
Price: 14000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

HENRY RODERICK NEWMAN (AMERICAN, 1843-1917)
The Greater Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt
signed, inscribed and dated 'H. R Newman / Abu Simble [sic] 1905' (lower centre) and further inscribed 'Abu Simble [sic] / This drawing must not be / removed from this panel' (on the backboard)
pencil and watercolour on paper
26 x 16⁷⁄₈ in. (66 x 43 cm.)

Simon Sainsbury (1930 - 2006) (†); Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 363.
with Andrew Clayton-Payne, London.
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2009.

R.W. Leith, 'The Expatriate Years of Henry Roderick Newman', The Magazine Antiques, April 1996.
D. Alberge, "Classical Modern Art" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 340, fig. 51.

Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique, 2011 - 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA66MA)

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The twin temples at Abu Simbel in southern Egypt were carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharoah Ramesses II in the 13th Century BC, as a memorial to himself and his queen Nefertari. The present watercolour was painted before the entire complex was relocated in the 1960s to an artificial hill above the Aswan dam reservoir. The present watercolour shows the façade of the Greater Temple on the site, guarded by four colossal statues of the Pharoah sculpted directly out of the rock face.