Temple of Dandour--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
![Temple of Dandour--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9d/9de27c16fb49-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 Temple of Dandour--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Temple of Dandour--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts drew the Temple of Dandour, a small sandstone sanctuary in Nubia, during his 1838 to 1839 journey through Egypt and the Sudan. The temple dates to the Roman period, when Augustus had it built in the decades around the turn of the first millennium BCE, and its gateway and courtyard still stood largely intact when Roberts saw them. Louis Haghe's lithograph turned his sketch into a color plate for the London series *Egypt & Nubia*, which helped define how European readers pictured these monuments. The temple was later moved to New York in the 1960s to escape the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam.
| 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. 2, pt. 21. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217958 |
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