Approach of the Temple of Wady Saboua--Nubia / 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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A window into the past: Approach of the Temple of Wady Saboua--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Approach of the Temple of Wady Saboua--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A.
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This print shows the approach to the temple at Wadi es-Sebua, a rock-cut sanctuary in Nubia, on the Nile south of the First Cataract, with its processional route of sphinxes leading toward the entrance. The Scottish painter David Roberts sketched Egypt and Nubia during his travels in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe turned those sketches into color lithographs for the multi-part series published in London by F. G. Moon between 1846 and 1849. The plate is valuable both as a view of a monument then little known to European audiences and as a record of how Roberts's drawings reached readers at home.
| Created / published | [published between 1846 and 1849] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 1, pt. 31. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,476 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217919 |
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