Quay at Suez Febrary 11th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Quay at Suez Febrary 11th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Quay at Suez Febrary 11th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts drew this quay at Suez on February 11, 1839, during his journey through Egypt and the Near East, and it was later reproduced as a color lithograph by Louis Haghe. The print appeared in *The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia*, issued in London by F. G. Moon in parts between 1842 and 1845. Suez was then a modest port at the northern end of the Red Sea, well before the Suez Canal opened in 1869 and transformed it. Roberts's on-the-spot sketches gave European readers some of the first detailed visual records of such places, so the plate is valued both as a view of a working waterfront and as a document of the period.
| Created / published | [published between 1844 and 1845] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 3, pts. 19-20, p. 11. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 120, p. 52. Tooley, no. 122 |
| Subjects | Suez (Egypt)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,448 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217534 |
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