Sakia at the Nilometer, Island of Elephantine
1887
Edwin Howland Blashfield
American, 1848-1936
American Art
- Maker/Artist
- Blashfield, Edwin Howland
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite on paper mounted to gray paperboard
- Medium
- graphite, paper, mounted, gray, paperboard
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 3/4 x 10 1/16 in. (29.8 x 25.6 cm) Mat (drawing mounted to): 18 1/2 x 12 in. (47 x 30.5 cm)
- Inscribed
- Inscribed in graphite, lower right, partially obscured by figure: "SAKKIYEH / BUILT ON / THE / ANCIENT / QUAY / ON / ISLAND O[F] / ELEPHANTIN[E]"
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 48.217.3
- Credit Line
- Gift of John H. Field
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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