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Egypt : yesterday and today / lithographs by David Roberts ; [text by Fabio Bourbon ; photographs by Antonio Attini ; translation by A.B.A., Milan]
Fine Arts Library Folio NE2347.6.R64 A4 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, David, 1796-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roberts, David, 1796-1864--Travel--Egypt.
- Roberts, David.
- Roberts, David, 1796-1864.
- Travel.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Pictorial works.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Arab Republic of Egypt (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 36 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Lithographs and diaries by David Roberts, R.A."--Cover.
- "This edition published by arrangement with White Star S.r.l."
- ISBN:
- 9774244087
- OCLC:
- 53089251
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