Gate of victory and minaret of the Mosque El Hakim / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print
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(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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Step back in time with Gate of victory and minaret of the Mosque El Hakim / David Roberts, R.A., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gate of victory and minaret of the Mosque El Hakim / David Roberts, R.A.
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The Bab al-Nasr, or Gate of Victory, stands in Cairo beside the minaret of the Mosque of al-Hakim, two of the city's oldest surviving medieval landmarks. The gate was built in 1087 under the Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali, and the mosque dates to the reign of the caliph al-Hakim in the early eleventh century. David Roberts, the Scottish painter who traveled in Egypt in 1838 and 1839, sketched the scene on site, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into color lithographs for *Egypt and Nubia*, published 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. 3, pt. 3. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218008 |
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