Egypt & Nubia from Drawings Made On the Spot
London: F.G. Moon, 1846-1849. 3 volumes bound in Two. Folio [60 cm] Contemporary 3/4 burgundy morroco with decorative gilt stamping and titles to backstrips. Item #11164
Complete with all plates and illustrations. Three tinted lithographic frontispieces, 3 titles, 61 tinted lithographic plates and 60 illustrations lithographed by Louis Haghe after Roberts, engraved map at the rear of volume 3. Historical descriptions by William Brockedon.
Scottish born David Roberts was the first professional artist to visit the Middle East without a patron or connection to a military expedition. He sailed to Alexandria in Egypt in 1838 and travelled up the Nile, through Cairo and Luxor to Abu. During his travels he filled sketchbooks and made numerous watercolors of temples, ruins, people and landscapes.
These provided the basis for this monumental work, which was lithographed by Louis Haghe (1806-85), the leading lithographer of the time who specialized in tinted lithographs. Published in three volumes between 1842 and 1849. This beautiful work provided Western audiences their first glimpses of the antiquities of Egypt and Sudan, and serves as a continuation of Roberts' highly successful earlier series, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, and Arabia (1842–1845).
Price: $38,000.00