Artist

Louisa Tenison

Pyramids of Geezeh.  Egypt
Interior of the Temple of Karnak, Thebes Upper Egypt.
A Scene in the Desert Wady Gharendl

Louisa Tenison is an Orientalism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Louisa Tenison made delicate drawings and watercolours of Egypt during the 1840s, when British travellers carried sketchbooks along the Nile. Her three works in this set show a desert valley called Wady Gharendl, the pyramids at Geezeh, and the vast columns inside the Temple of Karnak. Each sheet is small enough to fit in a coat pocket, yet packed with precise lines and soft washes of colour. To see how travellers recorded their journeys before cameras, tap Wady Gharendl.

Works by Louisa Tenison

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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