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This, according to Emily Beaufort, was Haag's reaction on seeing sketches of the ruins. When they reached them in October 1859 they were not disappointed. Emily Beaufort's book, Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines (1861), describes them eulogistically and at length; Haag made several sketches, which became the basis of watercolours exhibited in London on his return. In their preoccupation with the light and atmosphere of the site, these watercolours are very different from the dry, academic plans and architectural details published a century earlier in Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra (1753; see p.43). \r\n\r\nHaag's trip to Palmyra was part of an extended visit to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon lasting fifteen months in 1858-60. He was a prolific and successful painter in watercolours, and after this journey specialised in oriental subjects. 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Beaufort, Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines including some stay in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in Western Turkey, 1861, Vol.I, pp.324-99. He exhibited watercolours of Palmyra at the OWS in 1860 (105), 1862 (300) and 1863 (186).  Two watercolours of the Triumphal Arch, Palmyra were exhibited at the Goupil Galleries in 1885 (18,88).","briefDescription":"Watercolour,  `The Triumphal Arch, Palmyra', 1859, by Carl Haag RWS","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Syria","id":"x29200"},{"text":"Tudmur","id":"x36552"},{"text":"Palmyra","id":"x36552"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Triumphal arches","id":"AAT7003"},{"text":"Ruins","id":"AAT8057"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["SD.458"],"accessionNumberNum":"458","accessionNumberPrefix":"SD","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-17","recordCreationDate":"2008-02-01","availableToBook":false}}