Sanctuary of the Temple of Aboo-Simble Novr 9th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
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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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A window into the past: Sanctuary of the Temple of Aboo-Simble Novr 9th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sanctuary of the Temple of Aboo-Simble Novr 9th 1838 / David Roberts, R.A.
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The inner sanctuary of the temple at Abu Simbel, drawn by David Roberts on November 9, 1838, is set deep inside the rock, where seated statues of the gods and the deified king sit in dim light from the entrance. Ramesses II had the temple cut into a cliff on the Nubian bank of the Nile. Roberts, a Scottish painter and Royal Academy member, sketched the scene on the spot, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into color lithographs for this part of *Egypt & Nubia*, published in London between 1846 and 1849. The temple was later moved block by block in the 1960s to escape the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam.
| 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. 1, pt. 13. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,478 × 1,211 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217902 |
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