Cairo looking west / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Print
![Cairo looking west / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b8/b8bd4a094ec1-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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This antique lithograph of Cairo looking west / David Roberts, R.A. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Cairo looking west / David Roberts, R.A.
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David Roberts drew this view of Cairo from a vantage point looking west, and it appeared as a color lithograph in the third volume of *Egypt & Nubia*, the large folio set published in London between 1846 and 1849. Roberts, a Scottish painter who spent months sketching in Egypt in 1838 and 1839, made the original drawings on the spot, and Louis Haghe transferred them to stone for printing. The plate shows the city's mosques, minarets and dense rooftops as a traveler of the period would have seen them, and it remains one of the most widely reproduced records of Cairo in the decades before photography became common there.
| 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. 14. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218001 |
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