Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(DAVID ROBERTS.) Group of 13 tinted lithographed plates from folio editions of The Holy Land... [and] Egypt and Nubia. Scattered spotting and toning. London, 1840s

Additional Details

- The Great Sphinx, Pyramids of Gizeh (hand-colored).

- Interview with the Viceroy of Egypt, at his Palace, Alexandria, May 12th, 1839.

- Ruins of Baalbec.

- Baalbec.

- General View of the Island of Philae, Nubia.

- The Convent of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, Looking Towards the Plains of the Encampment.

- Temple of Wady Saboua, Nubia (deluxe edition hand-colored, trimmed, mounted to original card).

- General View of Tyre.

- David Roberts portrait.

- Cleopatra's Needle (full-sheet with text).

- The Golden Gate of the Temple Shewing Part of the Ancient Walls (full-sheet with text).

- Entrance to the Tombs of the Kings, Jerusalem (trimmed half-sheet).

- Absaloms Pillar, Valley of Jehoshaphat (trimmed half-sheet).