Collection Horeau MSS - Hector Horeau Collection

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Horeau MSS

Title

Hector Horeau Collection

Date(s)

  • 1838 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

2 portfolios

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Name of creator

(1801-1872)

Biographical history

French architect. Born, Versailles 1801. Died, Paris 1872. Trained at École des Beaux-Arts, 1819-22. Worked on the plates for Cailliaud's publication Voyage à Meroé (1826-7). Visited Egypt and Nubia, 1839. Made mainly architectural drawings and paintings during his time there, some of which were reproduced in his Panorama d'Égypte et de Nubie (1841). Treasurer of the Société Asiatique, 1842. Horeau resumed his architectural career working in Paris and London. He won the best design for the Crystal Palace project in London, which in the event was not realised.

Archival history

In the possession of Dr T. Staines-Read.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

The estate of Dr T. Staines-Read, 1967.

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Scope and content

Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Kept as received.

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Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.

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  • French

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No problems.

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Catalogue.

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These are originals.

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-Some of the drawings and paintings reproduced in the publication Panorama d'Égypte et de Nubie (1841).

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  • Portrait: Hector Horeau, photograph taken by Adolphe Dallemagne, about 1865, inscribed "H. HOREAU. PORTRAITS BREVETÉS S.G.D.G. Phot. No. 9, Avenue de Ségur.". Copyright Peggy Joy Egyptology Library, Michigan, USA.

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  • Shelf: 0518B