Approach of the simoom--desert of Gizeh / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Print
![Approach of the simoom--desert of Gizeh / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/47880677f184-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Approach of the simoom--desert of Gizeh / David Roberts, R.A.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Approach of the simoom--desert of Gizeh / David Roberts, R.A.
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Titled "Approach of the simoom," this plate shows the hot, dust-laden wind that sweeps across the desert, here bearing down on the plain near Gizeh. David Roberts, the Scottish painter, made his sketches during his travels in Egypt and Nubia in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe turned them into lithographs for the three-volume *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London between 1846 and 1849. Roberts's views were widely circulated and shaped how many European readers imagined Egypt, and this plate, found in volume three, shows the desert landscape around the pyramids as both vast and hostile.
| 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. 28. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,470 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217985 |
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