Artist

Dighton

Dighton is an Orientalism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

This artist painted romantic watercolours of Egypt and its ruins around the 1840s. In The Island of Philae with the Kiosk you can see a detailed view of the temple complex on an island in the Nile, with soft light on the columns and river flowing around it. Tap the image for a closer look at the brushwork and tiny figures on the riverbank.

Works by Dighton

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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