Portrait of Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, half-length, an Egyptian landscape below with pyramids and temples and statues including the head and arm of Amenhotep III

1824

Not on view

A posthumous portrait of Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1788-1823), the celebrated Egyptologist of the nineteenth century. Belzoni made many important contributions to the field in his own time, including the discovery of the Nineteenth dynasty tomb of Seti I, located in the Valley of Kings near Thebes, around 1820. In one of the first attempts ever to move large Egyptian artifacts out of context, he successfully transported a large obelisk from Philae to Alexandria in 1819.

Artwork Details

Title: Portrait of Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, half-length, an Egyptian landscape below with pyramids and temples and statues including the head and arm of Amenhotep III
Artist: M. Fabroni (ca. 1820 active)
Publisher: Sarah Belzoni (British, Bristol 1783–1870 Jersey)
Date: 1824
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 20 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (51.4 x 38.4 cm)
plate: 17 1/16 x 13 5/16 in. (43.3 x 33.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1996
Object Number: 1996.370
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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