Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Wall Art
![Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8f/8f06c7fde961-L.webp)
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Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts's view of the Tombs of the Memlooks shows the domed mausoleums on the eastern edge of Cairo, where sultans and nobles of the Mamluk dynasty were buried. Roberts sketched Egypt during his travels there in 1838 and 1839, and the lithographs made from those drawings were issued in London later in the 1840s, with this plate appearing in the third volume of *Egypt & Nubia*. Louis Haghe, the lithographer who transferred the sketches to stone, gave the print its color, and the image remains a record of Cairo's monuments as European travelers saw them in the mid-nineteenth century.
| 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. 33. |
| 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-218004 |
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