Dancing girls at Cairo / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Wall Art
![Dancing girls at Cairo / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/43/43f6a0d657d1-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 Dancing girls at Cairo / 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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Dancing girls at Cairo / David Roberts, R.A.
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Among the Cairo scenes Roberts recorded, this plate shows dancing girls, a subject that drew European travelers eager to see local entertainment. Roberts made his sketches on the spot during his travels in Egypt and Nubia in 1838 and 1839. The lithographer Louis Haghe then turned them into color plates for the multi-volume *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London by F. G. Moon in the late 1840s, and this one appears in the third volume, page 37. Its colored finish suited Victorian readers' appetite for vivid views of the Near East.
| 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. 37. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218010 |
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