The nilometer, Island of Rhoda / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Wall Art
![The nilometer, Island of Rhoda / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/29/296fca9974f4-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 antique lithograph of The nilometer, Island of Rhoda / David Roberts, R.A. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The nilometer, Island of Rhoda / David Roberts, R.A.
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The Nilometer on the island of Rhoda, in the Nile opposite old Cairo, is a graduated column standing in a well that fills with river water. David Roberts made his sketches of Egypt during travels in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe turned them into this color lithograph for the third volume of *Egypt and Nubia*, published in London between 1846 and 1849. Officials read the column's markings during the flood season to judge how high the river would rise, a figure that affected irrigation and the taxes charged on farmland. The print shows the structure much as nineteenth-century travelers would have encountered it.
| 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. 3, p. 29. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,440 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217987 |
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