Grand entrance to the mosque of the Sultan Hassan / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
![Grand entrance to the mosque of the Sultan Hassan / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a28f244b343a-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 Grand entrance to the mosque of the Sultan Hassan / David Roberts, R.A.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Grand entrance to the mosque of the Sultan Hassan / David Roberts, R.A.
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This color lithograph shows the grand entrance to the mosque of Sultan Hasan in Cairo, a fourteenth-century Mamluk complex whose towering stone portal dwarfs the figures at its base. David Roberts made the original drawing during his journey through Egypt and Nubia in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe transferred it to stone for the three-volume *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London between 1846 and 1849. Roberts's views of Cairo's monuments helped shape European taste for Egyptian architecture, and this plate, with its carved and vaulted doorway, is a good example of his attention to scale and detail.
| 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. 22. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,159 × 1,481 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217999 |
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