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General view of Esouan and the island of Elephantine / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Photo Print

General view of Esouan and the island of Elephantine / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph
General view of Esouan and the island of Elephantine / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849]. Antique lithograph from the Middle East & Holy Land collection.

(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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Esouan, the town now called Aswan, sits on the Nile at the first cataract, and this view takes in the island of Elephantine just offshore. David Roberts, the Scottish painter, made his drawings on the spot during his journey through Egypt and Nubia in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe turned them into color lithographs for the multi-volume *Egypt & Nubia*. Elephantine was an ancient frontier town guarding the river route south, and Roberts's panorama shows how the granite outcrops and the water shaped its setting. This plate was issued in parts and appeared in the second volume, part 28.

Created / published[published between 1846 and 1849]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreBook illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850.
NotesIllus. 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. 28.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,453 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217944

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