A Persian wheel, used in raising water from the Nile / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
![A Persian wheel, used in raising water from the Nile / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/09e94e521f8c-L.webp)
(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 A Persian wheel, used in raising water from the Nile / David Roberts, R.A. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Persian wheel, used in raising water from the Nile / David Roberts, R.A.
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Unlike the temples and tombs that dominate most of Roberts's Egyptian views, this plate turns to a working machine: a Persian wheel, or sakia, used to lift water from the Nile into irrigation channels. Roberts drew the scene on his travels in Egypt in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe turned his sketches into color lithographs for *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London by F.G. Moon in parts between 1846 and 1849. The sakia, typically turned by oxen walking a circular path, shows how farmland along the river depended on human-powered hydraulics long before modern pumps.
| 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. 2, pt. 9. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,158 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217981 |
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