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Artist:     David Roberts (1796 - 1864), after
Title:     "The Temple at Dendur, Nubia", one of 10 views of Middle East
Item ID   5796
Price:     150.00 €
   

   
 

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View of the Temple of Dendur in Nubia, this hand-colored lithograph is one of the set of 10 views (see previous and next item numbers) , lithographed in 19th century by Louis HAGHE (Tournai, 1806 - Surrey, 1885) after famous watercolours by David Roberts ( 1796-1864), renowned British artist, who created a lot of watercolors from his travells in Middle East.

Roberts traveled up the Nile in 1838 and reached Abu Simbel in Nubia on November 8. One of the local monuments he sketched during three days in the area was the small Roman era temple at Dendur. After returning to London in 1839, the artist created detailed watercolors that Louis Haghe used to create lithographs. Eighty-five Egyptian subjects, published 1848–49, included "The Temple of Dandour, Nubia." Roberts’s images shaped how Europeans saw the region and his choice of this subject may even have influenced the actual temple’s preservation in the 1960s—before the site was flooded by the High Aswan Dam, the structure was dismantled and presented to the United States by the government of Egypt. Today, the Temple of Dendur (68.154) is one of the Museum’s great treasures.

Inscription: signed in the stone plate lower right, on the back of the cover. - written title of the view.

Technique: Lithography on paper. Matted and framed.

Measurements: unframed w. 6 6/8" x h 4 7/8"(17 x 12 cm ), , framed w. 13 3/8" x h 11 1/4" (34, 5 x 28,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.