Statues of Memnon Thebes Decr 4th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Wall Art
![Statues of Memnon Thebes Decr 4th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9e59b2368c73-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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A window into the past: Statues of Memnon Thebes Decr 4th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Statues of Memnon Thebes Decr 4th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Two seated colossi rising from the Theban plain give this view its subject, the Statues of Memnon, on the west bank of the Nile near modern Luxor. They depict the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and David Roberts sketched them on December 4, 1838, during the Egyptian journey that produced much of his best-known work. Ancient visitors claimed the northern statue sang at dawn, a sound later attributed to cracks in the damaged stone warming in the sun, until Roman repairs reportedly silenced it. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's sketch into this color lithograph for the eleventh part of *Egypt & Nubia*, issued in London 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. 11. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,468 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217913 |
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