Thursday, November 14, 2024

David Roberts
(1796 - 1864)
 
David Roberts RA RBA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_(painter)



The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt
1849
oil on panel
36.8 cm × 54.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1018

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