Hector Horeau
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Hector Horeau (1801-1872), he was born in Versailles, graduated from the École des Beaux Arts as an architect. One of his first commissions was to draw the illustrations for Cailliaud’s book recording his second journey to Nubia, “Voyage à Meroé”. Horeau made his own first journey to Egypt in 1837. After recording Cairo, the Pyramids, Sphinx, and many more Egyptian sites, he hired a boat and set off for Thebes. He ascended the Nile, stopping off at sites of archaeological interest including the tombs of Beni Hasan, Asyut, Dendora, as well as Luxor, Karnac, Philae, etc. On his return to France, Horeau reworked his drawings using the daguerrotype technique of Pierre Gustave de Lotbini ère. Horeau’s fame as an illustrator is closely linked to some of his most remarkable drawings, especially his well-known bird’s-eye view of the Nile from Alexandria as far as the temples of Abu Simbel and the Second Cataract, which serves as the frontispiece of Panorama d’Égypte et de Nubie.
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/the_principal_monuments_of_egy.html
Daguerrotypists found ideal subjects in the ruins of Ancient Egypt. The monuments were stunning, of course; perhaps as importantly, they could be counted on not to move and blur the picture. The shiny image the earliest photographers produced on metal plates thus included an immense number of sharp details. The process invented by the Frenchman Louis Daguerre was slow, however, and presented the grave disadvantage of yielding a single image, which could be reproduced only indirectly, by engraving. Jacques Ittier, Pierre Joly de Lotbinière, Horace Vernet and Hector Horeau were the first daguerrotypists to work in Egypt.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/488/feat2.htm
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