Mosque El Mooristan, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
![Mosque El Mooristan, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/389968d52119-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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Mosque El Mooristan, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mosque El Mooristan, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A.
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The name on this plate, "Mosque El Mooristan," refers to the complex built in Cairo by the Mamluk sultan Qalawun, completed in 1285 as a mosque and a hospital, or *maristan*, in the Arabic term. David Roberts sketched the city during his 1838 to 1839 visit to Egypt, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into color lithographs for *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London by F. G. Moon in the late 1840s. The plates gave European readers a detailed view of Cairo's medieval monuments at a time when few of them had seen the city firsthand.
| 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. 24. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,190 × 1,484 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217931 |
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