Pyramids of Geezeh

Creator:

David Roberts (1796-1864), drawings; Louis Haghe (1806-1885), lithographer; William Brockedon, F.R.S. (1787-1854), text

Description:

Tinted lithograph (one or two tints), colored From Egypt and Nubia from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. Volume II London: F.G. Moon, 1846-1849

Curatorial Notes:

A Scotsman who succeeded in the competitive London art scene, David Roberts began his career as a scenery painter for the theatre. In 1823, he sold pictures from his first exhibition and his career was under way. His embrace of the picturesque came with the 1837 publication, Picturesque Sketches In Spain Taken During the Years 1832 & 1833. On display here is a plate from his trip to “the East” starting in 1838. It was a self-funded trip, fulfilled a lifelong dream, and provided bounteous drawings for his massive publications on the Holy Land (1842-49: 3 vol.) and Egypt and Nubia (1846-49: 3 vol.).

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In Pursuit of the Picturesque