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5-66383. 5. David Roberts & Louis Haghe, The Convent of St. Catherine

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David Roberts & Louis Haghe, The Convent of St. Catherine. Mount Sinai, Looking towards the Plain of the Encampment, London, 1849. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from the subscription edition of Roberts’ The Holy Land..
Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts’ “The Holy Land”, wrinkling on the right, otherwise a good copy with clean bright colours.
Dimensions: 340 by 495mm. (13.50 by 19.50 inches).

David Roberts’ magnificent images of Egypt and the Holy Land rank amongst the finest topographical views of the nineteenth century. Roberts made a two-year journey to the Middle-East commencing in 1838, and whilst there executed numerous watercolours from which the finest were selected for the publication; The lithographs were executed by Louis Haghe. In order to help fund the project, Roberts produced a deluxe subscription edition, from which this lithograph was taken, which is notable for being the only edition to have original hand-colour, which would have been executed under the direction of the artist.