1830-1870 (Temporal Keyword)

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Egypt in Britain: material vocabularies of bereavement. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matilda H Duncker.

The presence of Egyptianizing designs in nineteenth century cemeteries can be attributed at least in part to the global reach of British politico-economic interest and the appropriation of ancient cultures that this facilitated. However, the presence of these forms within a heterogeneous monumental landscape that also included designs taken from an imagined national past and from Classical architecture encourages us to consider not only how Egyptianizing forms were encountered and developed by...