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Egypt and Nubia, Volume III, No. 26, Cairo, Looking West

1838

Louis Haghe

(British, 1806–1885)

after David Roberts

(Scottish, 1796–1864)
Culture
England, 19th century
Medium
color lithograph
Credit Line
Gift of J. Byers Hays 1953.531
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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The Cairo skyline is pierced by minarets, the slender mosque towers from which the Muslim faithful would be called to prayer.

Description

This printed leaf depicts a panoramic scene of Cairo around the 1800s, viewed from the west.

David Roberts was among the earliest British artists to travel to the Middle East in 1838–39, a trip that resulted in more than 250 drawings depicting Egypt and the Holy Land. He later worked with printer Louis Haghe to translate these works into lithography in order to reach a wider audience at a time that coincided with the expansion of European colonialism.
A muted, horizontally oriented lithograph shows an elevated view of Cairo, where a hazy sky casts tan and gray tones over the city. On the left, a rugged hillside slopes toward a fortified stone wall. To the right rise mosques with rounded domes and slender minarets. In the distance, two pyramids sit on the horizon. Small figures walk along a path below the wall, adding scale to the dusty landscape.

Egypt and Nubia, Volume III, No. 26, Cairo, Looking West

1838

Louis Haghe, David Roberts

(British, 1806–1885), (Scottish, 1796–1864)
England, 19th century

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