Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1838 (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
2 portfolios
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
In the possession of Dr T. Staines-Read.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
The estate of Dr T. Staines-Read, 1967.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
français
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Catalogue.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
None.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
Zone des notes
Note
- 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.