The coffee shop, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Wall Art
![The coffee shop, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/eed5e8b75f36-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 The coffee shop, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The coffee shop, Cairo / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts drew this Cairo coffee shop on the spot during his tour of Egypt and Nubia in 1838 and 1839, and Louis Haghe turned the sketch into a color lithograph for the book's third volume. Coffee houses were among the city's main public meeting places, where men gathered to smoke pipes, play games, talk, and listen to storytellers. Roberts's interest in such scenes of everyday street life helped make his Egyptian views popular with British readers, who had little firsthand knowledge of the country. The plate appeared in the London edition published by F.G. Moon 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. 3, p. 35. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,469 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218003 |
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