Obelisk at Alexandria commonly called Cleopatra's needle / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Wall Art
![Obelisk at Alexandria commonly called Cleopatra's needle / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7e5592ab4aea-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 antique lithograph of Obelisk at Alexandria commonly called Cleopatra's needle / David Roberts, R.A. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Obelisk at Alexandria commonly called Cleopatra's needle / David Roberts, R.A.
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Few monuments in Alexandria carry a more misleading nickname than the obelisk shown here, which European visitors called Cleopatra's Needle even though the queen had no part in its making. The granite shaft was originally raised at Heliopolis for the pharaoh Thutmose III, more than a thousand years before Cleopatra's reign, and was later moved to Alexandria. David Roberts sketched it during his travels in Egypt in the late 1830s, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into this color lithograph for the *Egypt & Nubia* series, issued in London in parts between 1846 and 1849.
| 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, pt. 21. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,465 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217906 |
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