Entrance to the caves of Beni Hassan / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
![Entrance to the caves of Beni Hassan / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7b/7bb940a62123-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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Step back in time with Entrance to the caves of Beni Hassan / David Roberts, R.A., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Entrance to the caves of Beni Hassan / David Roberts, R.A.
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The entrance shown here is one of the rock-cut tombs at Beni Hassan, on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, where provincial officials of the Middle Kingdom were buried in cliffs above the river. Roberts sketched the site during his travels in Egypt in the late 1830s, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into lithographs for the multi-volume *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London in the later 1840s. Such plates helped European readers see ancient monuments that few could reach in person, and the tomb facades, with their columns cut into living rock, remain among the most recognizable features of the site.
| 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. 1, p. 41. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,208 × 1,506 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217924 |
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