Alexandria / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print
![Alexandria / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7c/7cd1cce321f3-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 Alexandria / David Roberts, R.A.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Alexandria / David Roberts, R.A.
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Alexandria, the Mediterranean port that Alexander the Great founded in 332 BC, is the subject of this plate from David Roberts's *Egypt and Nubia*, a multi-volume set of views drawn on the spot during his travels in the late 1830s. Louis Haghe made the colored lithograph from Roberts's sketches, and the London publisher F.G. Moon issued it in parts between 1846 and 1849. Roberts's views helped shape how Europeans pictured Egypt for a generation, and this sheet records a city that was changing quickly under Muhammad Ali's rule.
| 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, pt. 4. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,469 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217995 |
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