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

M. Fabroni
Publisher Sarah Belzoni British

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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.

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, M. Fabroni (ca. 1820 active), Lithograph

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