Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Approach of the Simoon-Desert at Gizeh

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Source: Cleveland Museum of Art 2012.263, via https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2012.263-egypt-and-nubia-volu (image https://archive.org/download/clevelandart-2012.263-egypt-and-nubia-volu/2012.263_full.jpg, rendition original) — staged 2026-09-29 by worker IMAGES-1 (corpus/incoming/images-egypt/roberts-egypt-nubia/STAGING.md, _meta/items/)

Attribution: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.263

Licence: public domain — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; archive.org licenseurl); Louis Haghe (1806–1885); David Roberts (1796–1864): public domain by age; ruling IMG-1 / DL-2 (Yousef 2026-09-29)

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1Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Approach of the Simoon-Desert at Gizeh
2Cleveland Museum of Art: 3 — volume 3, seq 37, plate number not stated (the holder's capture sequence is not a checked plate number).
3Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Approach of the Simoon-Desert at Gizeh, 1849. Louis Haghe (British, 1806–1885), F. G. Moon (British, 1797–1871), after David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864). Color lithograph; sheet: 43.6 x 60.4 cm (17 3/16 x 23 3/4 in.); image: 33.1 x 48.5 cm (13 1/16 x 19 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.263 The invention of photography was announced in 1839, but photographers did not arrive in Egypt until around 1850. Prior to that, general knowledge about the ancient sites came from writings and reproductions of the paintings and drawings of adventurous artists. Roberts, the first British artist to produce a series of Egyptian views, traveled through the Middle East in 1838–40. Back in England, he worked with Haghe to translate his drawings into color lithographs, which were published between 1842 and 1849 as an opulent series of portfolios. A stimulating mixture of documentation and romanticism that still moves today’s viewers, Roberts’s images appeared just before the availability of photographic depictions of the region and inspired the photographers who followed in his footsteps.
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Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Approach of the Simoon-Desert at Gizeh
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Cleveland Museum of Art 2012.263, via https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2012.263-egypt-and-nubia-volu (image https://archive.org/download/clevelandart-2012.263-egypt-and-nubia-volu/2012.263_full.jpg, rendition original) — staged 2026-09-29 by worker IMAGES-1 (corpus/incoming/images-egypt/roberts-egypt-nubia/STAGING.md, _meta/items/)
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Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Approach of the Simoon-Desert at Gizeh. Cleveland Museum of Art 2012.263, via https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2012.263-egypt-and-nubia-volu (image https://archive.org/download/clevelandart-2012.263-egypt-and-nubia-volu/2012.263_full.jpg, rendition original) — staged 2026-09-29 by worker IMAGES-1 (corpus/incoming/images-egypt/roberts-egypt-nubia/STAGING.md, _meta/items/). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/images/roberts-egypt-and-nubia/egypt-and-nubia-volume-iii/037.cma-2012.263.plate/. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.263

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