Presenting Egypt

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Presenting Egypt

Cluster Topic: Presenting Egypt

Focuses on the depiction of Egypt in Museums, World Fairs, and Western Orientalist artworks from the 19th century on. Includes discussion of themes of colonialism, imperialism, antiquarianism, orientalism, consumerism, and the legacies of these themes in modern institutions and museums.

Collecting Egypt: The British Museum, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Egypt in the World’s Fairs: Paris, 1867 & 1889; Chicago 1893; St Louis 1904

Prints and Sketches: David Roberts

Painting: Jean-Léon Gérôme & Orientalist Art

Cluster Contributors

Chloe Calzolano ’25- Collecting Egypt: The British Museum, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Claudia Foushee ’28- Egypt in the World’s Fairs: Paris, 1867 & 1889; Chicago 1893; St Louis 1904
Rosemary Mbeche ’26- Prints and Sketches: David Roberts
Wesley Smail ’26-Painting: Jean-Léon Gérôme & Orientalist Art

"Rosetta Stone International Congress of Orientalists ILN 1874." Wikimedia Commons 1874. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosetta_Stone_International_Congress_of_Orientalists_ILN_1874.jpg — Scholars inspect the Rosetta Stone at the International Congress of Orientalists, 1874