Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774244087
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Egypt by : David Roberts
Download or read book Egypt written by David Roberts and published by Amer Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Roberts, one of the most skilled landscape artists of his time, set out for Egypt in 1838, where he made countless sketches of the most remarkable sites and monuments.Superb lithographs made from his work, first published between 1846 and 1848, are richly reproduced here in resplendent color, along with Roberts' diary accounts of his travels from Alexandria to the fabulous Abu Simbel temples. Each illustration, now arranged in chronological order, is accompanied by a photograph showing the same view more than 150 years later.Fabio Bourbon's lucid essay introduces anew this 19th-century virtuoso lithographer and contextualizes his images for the modern reader.