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List 60 - Summer 2004
David Roberts (1797-1864)
Egypt, Nubia & the Holy Land
A Complete Catalog of the
First Edition Lithographs.

There are 8 web pages of prints by David Roberts.
Please choose a selection of prints to view from the lists below:

EGYPT AND NUBIA
Alexandria to Cairo
Gizeh, Dendera, Karnak
Luxor & Valley of the Kings to Kom Ombu
Philae to Aboo Simbel, Maps & Portraits

THE HOLY LAND
Cairo to Mt.Sinai to Petra
Hebron to Jaffa to Jerusalem
Outside of Jerusalem & North to Nazareth
Cana to Acre, Lebanon, Baalbec

Please Note: Prices and availability subject to change on all prints.

63. Ruins of the Temple of
Medamout, Near Thebes.

Half folio.
Image: 9 7/8” x 13 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. The temple of Medamout
is located in the Luxor/ Karnak area.

[EE 63]
$300.

64. Grand Entrance to the Temple of Luxor.

Full folio.
Image: 12 7/8” x 19 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors with added hand coloring. The temple at Luxor shown surrounded by modern mud brick buildings which have since been removed. (The jars on the roofs are dovecotes.)

[EF 64]
$2.150.

65. General View of the Ruins
of Luxor, From the Nile.

Full folio.
Image: 13 15/16” x 19 7/8”.
Original lithographic colors with added hand coloring.
An excellent full folio print, showing the full length
of the temple at Luxor as seen from the Nile.

[EF 65]
$2,200.

66. Obelisk of Lux

Full folio.
Image: 12 7/8” x 19 1/8”.
Original lithographic colors with modern hand coloring added. One of two obelisks originally at the entrance to the temple at Luxor. The foreground hole remains from the second obelisk, removed by Napoleon to Paris and now at the Place de la Concorde.

[EF 66]
$1,900.

67. Entrance of the Temple
of Amun, Thebes.

Full folio.
Image: 13” x 18 15/16”.
Original lithographic colors with modern hand coloring.
The only full folio lithograph featuring a group of figures.
The central figure is the Pasha’s repre-sentative and tax
collector, being petitioned by the local sheik standing to
his right.

[EF 67]
$1200 version without added hand coloring.
$1,300 version with hand coloring.

68. Entrance to the Tombs of the Kings
of Thebes - Biban-el-Molook.

Full folio.
Image: 12 7/8” x 19 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors. Depicts the “Valley of the Kings”, across the Nile from Luxor. The entrances to many of the underground royal tombs can be seen, but Tutankamun’s tomb, located here, will not be discovered for many years yet.

[EF 68]
$1,000.

69. Lybian [sic] Chain of Mountains,
from the Temple of Luxor.

Full folio.
Image: 13 11/16” x 19 11/16”.
Original lithographic colors. These hills surround
the “Valley of the Kings”. One of the more
highly colored lithographs as printed.

[EF 69]
$1,000

71. A Colossal Statue at the
Entrance to the Temple of Luxor.

Half folio.
Image: 9 7/8” x 11 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. Shows one of the large statues of Ramses II at the temple of Luxor.

[EF 71]
$400.

72. At Luxor: Thebes.

Half folio.
Image: 10” x 13 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. Shows a portion of
the colonnade surrounding the courtyard of the
Temple of Luxor.

[EF 72]
$400.

73. Ruins of Luxor from the South-West.

Half folio.
Image: 9 15/16” x 13 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. The Temple of Luxor as seen from across the Nile.

[EF 73]
$425.

74. Statues of Memnon at Thebes,
During the Inundation.

Full folio.
Image: 13 3/4” x 20 5/16”.
Original lithographic colors. A top image with intense
lithographic colors and a dramatic subject. (Roberts
added the water - he was not in Egypt at the time
of the flooding of the Nile.)

[EG 74]
Please contact the gallery
for price and availability

75. Thebes. [The Colossi of Memnon
seen from the Southwest].

Full folio.
Image: 12 5/8” x 19 3/16”.
Original lithographic colors with added hand coloring. One of the classic lithographs of the famous Colossi of Memnon, which formerly stood before a temple destroyed by an earthquake in 27 B.C. Thereafter, until being repaired by Septimus Severus, the northern statue was rumored to “wail” when heated by the rising sun.

[EG 75]
$2,200.

76. Fragments of the Great Colossi,
at the Memnonium.

Full folio.
Image: 13 11/16” x 20 1/8”.
Original lithographic colors with added hand coloring.
A very intensely colored lithograph as printed, with
blue, pink and violet ink combinations. The Memnonium,
also called the Ramesseum, was the funeral temple of
Ramses II, whose fallen colossus is in the courtyard.

[EG 76]
$2,200.

77. Statues of Memnon in
the Plain of Goorna.

Half folio.
Image: 9 15/16” x 13 13/16.
Original lithographic colors. The Colossi of Memnon seen at their isolated site from a distance.

[EG 77]
$275.

78. Ruins of the Memnonium, Thebes.

Full folio.
Image: 13 1/8” x 19 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors. Roberts’ group
approaching the Memnonium during a storm.
Note the lightning striking the temple.

[EG 78]
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for price and availability

79. Medinet Abou, Thebes
[From a distance].

Full folio.
Image: 12 15/16” x 19 5/16”.
Original litho-graphic colors. Roberts’ group approaching the temple of Medinet Abou, a large complex across the Nile from Luxor.

[EG 79]
$750.

80. Medinet Abou, Thebes [Grand Court,
with remains of a Christian church].

Full folio.
Image: 12 15/16” x 19 3/16.
Original lithographic colors. An image of the
courtyard of the temple Medinet Abou, showing
the remains of a Christian church built within it.

[EG 80]
$1,500.

81. Ruins of Erment, Ancient
Hermontis, Upper Egypt.

Half folio.
Image: 10” x 13 3/4”.
Original lithographic colors. Showing the temple of Montu, about 12 miles up the Nile from Luxor. This temple was destroyed entirely a few years after Roberts’ visit, so that its stones could be used to build a sugar refinery.

[EG 81]
Please contact the gallery for price and availability

82. View from Under the Portico of
the Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt.

Full folio.
Image: 13 5/8” x 19 13/16”.
Original lithographic colors. A very detailed
depiction of the well preserved, though then
largely buried, courtyard of the temple of Edfou.

[EH 82]
$2,500 version without hand coloring.
$2700 version with added hand coloring
.

83. Edfou (Facade of the Pronaos
of Edfou - 11/24/1838).

Full folio.
Image: 12 15/16” x 19 1/4.
Original lithographic colors, with modern hand coloring added. One of two perspective views of the then half-buried temple of Edfou. Note the huts built on the roof - shown in many of the Roberts images of Egypt, and quite common at the time.

[EH 83]
$2150 version without hand coloring.
$2,250 version with hand coloring.

84. Part of the Portico of Edfou.

Full folio.
Image: 13 1/16” x 20 1/16”.
Original lithographic colors. The second perspective
view of the Portico of the Temple of Edfou.

[EH 84]
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for price and availability

85. Temple of Edfou, Ancient Appolinopolis.

Full folio.
Image: 13 1/4” x 19 11/16”.
Original lithographic colors. A view of Edfou showing all of the elements of the temple, from the entrance pylon at right, to the naos, or sanctuary, on the left. This print provides a clear understanding of the typical layout and design of the large Egyptian Temple complexes.

[EH 85]
$1,700.

86. Remains of the Portico of
the Temple of Kom Ombu.

Full folio.
Image: 13” x 19 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors. A very popular and
widely reproduced image of the partly ruined
and buried temple, since excavated and reconstructed.

[EH 86]
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for price and availability

87. Ruins of Kom Ombo.

Full folio.
Image: 12 7/8” x 19 1/4”.
Original lithographic colors. A second view of the temple of Kom Ombo from another angle.

[EH 87]
$2,150 version with added hand coloring.

88. Temple of Esneh.

Full folio.
Image: 12 11/16” x 18 7/8”.
Original lithographic colors, with modern hand coloring. The interior of the Ptolemaic temple of Esneh, then buried 30 feet below ground level by accumulated debris.

[EH 88]
$1,650 version with added hand coloring..

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