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1. Alexandria.
Full folio.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 24”,
Image: 14 3/4” x 20 3/8”.
Original lithographic colors with modern hand coloring. The only print in the series featuring western ships of the time. Sketched upon Roberts’ arrival in Alexandria to begin his journey in Egypt.
[EA 001]
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2. Interview With The Viceroy.
Full folio.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 23 7/8”,
Image: 13 5/8” x 19 3/16”.
Original lithographic colors. One of the most highly colored lithographs as printed, and one of the few prints showing Roberts in Western dress, seated to the right of the two uniformed officers.
[EA 002]
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3. Persian Waterwheel, Used
For Irrigation In Nubia.
Half folio with accompanying text below and on verso.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 24”,
Image: 9 15/16” x 13 7/8”.
Original lithographic colors. One of the few prints not focusing on a monument or group of native people. A very artistic piece and a favorite half folio of many collectors.
[EA 003]
$450.
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4. Cleopatra’s Needle
Half folio with accompanying text below and on verso.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 24”,
Image: 9 7/8” x 13 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. One of a number of prints featuring obelisks. The accompanying text describes aborted plans to remove the fallen obelisk in the foreground to England.
[EA 004]
$325.
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5. The Holy Tree Of Meter
Half folio with accompanying text below and on verso.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 24”,
Image: 9 7/16” x 13 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. A unique half folio print in the series featuring a tree, under which the Holy Family is said to have rested during their flight from Herod’s soldiers.
[EA 005]
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6. Obelisk Of
Half folio with accompanying text below and on verso.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 24”,
Image: 10 3/8” x 12”.
Original lithographic colors. One of a number of half-folio prints featuring obelisks.
[EA 006]
$325
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7. Pompey’s Pill
Half folio with accompanying text below and on verso.
Paper: 16 1/2” x 24”,
Image: 9 7/16” x 13 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. One of the first sketches made by Roberts upon his arrival in Egypt. The column was originally part of a library destroyed in Julius Caesar’s siege of Alexandria.
[EA 007]
$275.
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10. Grand Entrance to The
Mosque of The Sultan Hassan.
Full folio.
Paper: 16 1/4” x 23 15/16”,
Image: 12 13/16” x 19 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. Vertical image from the Cairo series, among the most highly colored lithographs as printed.
[EB010]
$1,900.
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11. Bazaar of the Coppersmith
Full folio.
Paper: 14 1/2” x 23 15/16”,
Image: 12 13/16” x 19 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. A vertical image from the Cairo series, among the most highly colored lithographs as printed.
[EB 011]
$2,000.
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12. Tombs of the Khalifs, Cairo.
Full folio. Image: 13 1/8” x 20 3/16”. Original lithographic colors. A vertical image showing one of the myriad of tombs of the “City of the Dead” in Cairo.
[EB 012]
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13. Minarets and Grand Entrance
of the Metwaleys, at Cairo
Full folio. Image: 12 3/4” x 19 1/8”. Original lithographic colors. One of the finest of the Cairo street scenes. Considered a “signature print” of the series.
[EB 013]
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14. The Entrance to the Citadel of Cai
Full folio.
Image: 12 3/4” x 19 1/8”
Original lithographic colors. A fine horizontal image from the Cairo series, showing the caravan departing for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
[EB 014]
$1,500.
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15. Interior of the Mosque of the Metwaleys.
Full folio.
Image: 13 13/16” x 19 11/16”.
Original lithographic colors. A rare contemporary interior view of a mosque. Posing as a Muslim, Roberts entered the mosques to sketch their interiors at significant personal risk, as Christian visitors were forbidden.
[EB 015]
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16. The Citadel of Cairo, Residence of Mehmet Ali.
Full folio.
Image: 12 7/8” x 19 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors with added hand coloring. Probably the best of the panoramas of Cairo, and one of the more highly colored lithographs as printed.
[EB 016]
$1,700.
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17. Cairo from the Gate of Citizeneb, Toward the Desert of Suez.
Full folio.
Paper: 16 3/8” x 23 15/16”,
Image: 12 15/16” x 19 3/16”.
Original lithographic colors. One of the very popular panoramas of the city.
[EB 017]
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18. Mosque of Sultan Hassan [Interior]
Full folio.
Image: 13 3/16” x 20 1/8”.
Original lithographic colors. A rare interior mosque
view. Posing as a Muslim, Roberts entered the
mosques at significant personal risk, as Christian
visitors were forbidden.
[EB 018]
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19. Cairo Looking West.
Full folio.
Image: 13 7/16” x 20 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. Another of the very
popular full folio panoramas of Cairo, this one
with the pyramids in the distance.
[EB 019]
$1,600.
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22. Modern Mansion, Showing the
Arabesque Architecture of Cai
Full folio.
Image: 13 7/8” x 19 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. A vertical full
folio, highly colored as printed.
[EB 022]
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23. Tombs of the Mamelooks, Cairo.
Half folio.
Image: 9 11/16” x 13 9/16”
Original lithographic colors. A fine half folio view of the large funerary tomb complex at Cairo, now surrounded by modern Cairo and known as the “City of the Dead”.
[EB 023]
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24. The Coffee House of Cairo.
Half folio.
Image: 9 7/8” x 13 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. One of the most
popular of the Egypt & Nubia half-folios.
[EB 024]
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25. The Ghawazees, or Dancing Girls of Cairo.
Half folio.
Image: 9 15/16” x 14 1/8”.
Original lithographic colors only. One of the most popular of the Egypt & Nubia half folios, showing dancers at a dinner attended by Roberts.
[EB 025]
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27. Bab en Nasr, Gate of Victory,
Mosque El Hakim, Cairo.
Half folio.
Image: 9 1/2” x 13 3/8”.
Original lithographic colors.
[EB 027]
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28. Minaret of the Mosque of El Rhamree.
Half folio.
Image: 9 11/16” x 14”.
Original lithographic colors.
[EB 028]
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29. Mosque of Ayed Bey, in the Desert of Suez.
Half folio.
Image: 9 9/16” x 13 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. A half folio lithograph
from the last sketch made by Roberts in Cairo,
before his departure for the Holy Land.
[EB 029]
$325.
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30. Tombs of the Caliphs, with the Citadel in the Distance.
Half folio.
Image: 9 3/4” x 13 1/2”.
Original lithographic colors. Roberts made numerous sketches of this large complex of tombs at Cairo.
[EB 030]
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31. The Gate of the Metwaleys, or Bab Zuweyleh.
Half folio.
Image: 10 3/16” x 14”.
Original lithographic colors. A half folio in the series of lithographs of the gates of the old city walls of Cairo.
[EB 031]
$350. SOLD
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32. Principal Mosque at Boulak.
Half folio.
Image: 9 9/16” x 13 5/16”.
Original lithographic colors. A fine vertical image, similar to several more expensive full folios, but in smaller format
[EB 032]
$475. SOLD
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33. Cairo: Aqueduct of the Nile,
from the Island of Rhoda.
Half folio.
Image: 9 1/2” x 13 11/16”.
Original lithographic colors. Showing the Roman aqueduct at Cairo.
[EB 033]
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34. Ruined Mosques in the Desert West of the Citad
Half folio.
Image: 9 9/16” x 12 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors.
[EB 034]
$325.
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35. One of the Tombs of the Caliphs, Cai
Image: 9 11/16” x 13 7/16”.
Original lithographic colors. Showing a portion of the famous Khanqa of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq in the Cairo tomb complex.
[EB 035]
$325.
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36. The Nilometer on the Island of Rhoda, Cairo.
Half folio.
Image: 9 7/8” x 13 15/16”.
Original lithographic colors. Depicts the marker used to measure the official level of the Nile flood, upon which the year’s taxes were based.
[EB 036]
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37. Tombs of the Memlooks, Cairo, with an Arab Funeral.
Half folio.
Image: 9 3/4” x 13 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. A funeral in the Cairo tomb complex.
[EB 037]
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38. Title Vignette: Street Scene in Cairo.
Full folio.
Image: 12 1/2” x 18 1/2”.
Original lithographic colors. One of the three Egypt & Nubia series Title Pages, intended for use in Volume 3 of the series, the lithographs of Cairo.
[EB 038]
$300.
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39. A Group in the Slave Market in Cairo.
Half folio.
Image: 9 7/8” x 13 7/8”.
Original lithographic colors. A very detailed group scene from the Cairo series.
[EB 039]
$275.
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