ENTRANCE TO THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABOO-SIMBEL, NUBIA.

PYRAMIDS OF GEEZEH, FROM THE NILE

VIEW LOOKING TOWARDS THE PYRAMIDS OF DASHOUR AND SACCARA, WITH A SLAVE-BOAT ON THE NILE.

POMPEY'S PILLAR.

RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF  KOM-OMBO, UPPER EGYPT.

TEMPLE OF TAFA IN NUBIA.

COLOSSAL FIGURES IN FRONT OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABOO-SIMBEL.

EXCAVATED TEMPLE OF GYRSHE, NUBIA.

PORTICO OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFOU, UPPER EGYPT.

STATUES OF MEMNON IN THE PLAIN OF GOORNA AT THEBES.

THEBES; THE COLOSSAL STATUES OF AMUNOPH III.

THE SANCTUARY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABOO-SIMBEL, NUBIA.

INTERIOR OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABOO-SIMBEL, NUBIA.

RUINS OF LUXOR FROM THE SOUTH-WEST.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE RUINS OF LUXOR, FROM THE NILE.

SIDE VIEW OF THE GREAT SPHINX.

HEAD OF THE GREAT SPHINX, PYRAMIDS OF GEEZEH.

TEMPLE OF DAKKE, IN NUBIA.

CENTRAL AVENUE OF THE GREAT HALL OF COLUMNS, KARNAK.

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.

OBELISK AT LUXOR.

RUINS OF MAHARRAKA, NUBIA.

INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF ESNÈ IN UPPER EGYPT.

TEMPLE OF WADY KARDASSY, NUBIA.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE ISLAND OF PHILAE, NUBIA.

ABYSSINIAN SLAVES AT KORTI.

PORTICO OF THE TEMPLE OF KALABSHE, NUBIA.

AT LUXOR: THEBES.

LIBYIAN CHAIN OF MOUNTAINS FROM THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR.

APPROACH TO THE TEMPLE OF WADY SABOUA, NUBIA.

VIEW FROM UNDER THE PORTICO OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFOU, UPPER EGYPT.

A COLOSSAL STATUE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR.

GATEWAY AT DENDERA.

PORTICO OF THE TEMPLE OF DENDERA.

SIOUT-UPPER EGYPT.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE RUINS OF KARNAC FROM THE WEST.

NUBIAN WOMEN AT KORTI.

GRAND PORTICO OF THE TEMPLE OF PHILAE, NUBIA.

ENTRANCE TO THE CAVES OF BENI HASSAN.

GRAND APPROACH TO THE TEMPLE OF PHILAE, NUBIA.

TEMPLE OF WADY SABOUA, NUBIA.

VIEW UNDER THE GRAND PORTICO, PHILÆ.

SIRE,

 

        I solicit, with profound respect, your permission to offer to the world, under the sanction of your Majesty’s Name, my “Sketches of EGYPT and NUBIA.”

    The encouragement which your Majesty has given to the Fine Arts of the enlightened Country of which you, Sire, are the Patriot King, has not been acknowledged in France alone; the Artists of every land gratefully refer to it, as offering, in its proud pre-eminence, the proof that the Arts of Peace can confer a Fame more bright and unsullied than that which is derived from any other source.

    Deeply interested in this truth, I have presumed to solicit the honour that my humble name may be associated with such acknowledgement, and that your Majesty will deign to accept this tribute of gratitude from an English Painter.

 

I am, Sire,

 

Your Majesty’s most obedient Servant,

 

DAVID ROBERTS.

TO

 

HIS MAJESTY LOUIS-PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH.

DAVID ROBERTS R.A.

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1. •MAP TO ILLUSTRATE  THE SKETCHES IN EGYPT & NUBIA 1849
   

• EGYPT & NUBIA VOL. I, II & III  DRAWINGS MADE ON THE SPOT  BY DAVID ROBERTS, R.A.

• WITH HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS  BY WILLIAM BROCKEDON, F.R.S.

• LITHOGRAPHED BY LOUIS HAGHE

• LONDON. F.G. MOON, 20 THREADNEEDLE STREET, PUBLISHER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY. MDCCCXLIX.