Excavated temples of Aboosimble--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Wall Art
![Excavated temples of Aboosimble--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b0/b0958302b52c-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: Excavated temples of Aboosimble--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Excavated temples of Aboosimble--Nubia / David Roberts, R.A.
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The temples at Abu Simbel, cut into a sandstone cliff on the west bank of the Nile in Nubia, are the focus of this plate, which the title spells "Aboosimble." Their four colossal seated figures of Ramesses II rise above the sand-filled entrance, a view that Scottish painter David Roberts sketched during his travels in Egypt and Nubia in 1838 and 1839. Louis Haghe turned those drawings into color lithographs for *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London in parts between 1846 and 1849. The plates helped European readers see Pharaonic monuments that were still poorly known, at a time when the sites were only beginning to be cleared and recorded.
| 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. 35. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,490 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217968 |
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