Egypt
- Egypt Of David Roberts Screensaver
Simtel 50 images of Egypt by David Roberts. Beautiful Pharaonic and Islamic scenes chosen from his six volumes of prints published in 1846. This screensaver includes a portrait of David Roberts plus scenes along the Nile of Abu Simbel, Karnak, the Temple...
- New Book: Living Images (hawara Portraits)
A new book has been announced, which will be officially launched on Friday 26th October 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London (U.K.): Living Images - Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke...
- Exhibition: Artist Travellers 1750-1850
http://living.scotsman.com/visual.cfm?id=1322402006The National Gallery of Scotland is featuring a small exhibtion, until December 10th 2006, which includes a small watercolour by David Roberts in its collection: "Tucked away in the dark recesses of the...
- David Roberts Volumes To Be Auctioned
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=976602006Inspired by an upcoming auction that will sell three of David Roberts's wonderful volumes of illustrations, this article delves into the life of the painter: "It was to be a book like no other: bigger,...
- Featured Article On Kom Ombo
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm Tour Egypt's most recent Featured Article, by Mark Andrews in entitled "Kom Ombo and the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris". This piece provides a good summary of the site, and is accompanied by some...
Egypt
David Roberts, R.A.
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/david_roberts.html
Further to my mention in the previous posting of David Roberts, whose paintings I love, there is a small feature about him on the above Travellers in Egypt website, which also contains a few of good quality images of his lithographs, including the rather wonderful and well-known self portrait. As well as being simply lovely in their own right, these paintings are a remarkable insight into the state of temples and monuments in Egypt at the time that Roberts was visiting in the 1830s - changes, both good and bad, from that time are often clearly visible. And his paintings highlight the sheer amount of sand that had to be moved from some of these monuments before they could be seen in their entirety.
Further to my mention in the previous posting of David Roberts, whose paintings I love, there is a small feature about him on the above Travellers in Egypt website, which also contains a few of good quality images of his lithographs, including the rather wonderful and well-known self portrait. As well as being simply lovely in their own right, these paintings are a remarkable insight into the state of temples and monuments in Egypt at the time that Roberts was visiting in the 1830s - changes, both good and bad, from that time are often clearly visible. And his paintings highlight the sheer amount of sand that had to be moved from some of these monuments before they could be seen in their entirety.
If you have some time on your hands, a gallery-full of his paintings have been catpured online at the following address, although the quaility of the images is highly variable.
http://www.museum-tours.com/museum/roberts/roberts0.htm
- Egypt Of David Roberts Screensaver
Simtel 50 images of Egypt by David Roberts. Beautiful Pharaonic and Islamic scenes chosen from his six volumes of prints published in 1846. This screensaver includes a portrait of David Roberts plus scenes along the Nile of Abu Simbel, Karnak, the Temple...
- New Book: Living Images (hawara Portraits)
A new book has been announced, which will be officially launched on Friday 26th October 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London (U.K.): Living Images - Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke...
- Exhibition: Artist Travellers 1750-1850
http://living.scotsman.com/visual.cfm?id=1322402006The National Gallery of Scotland is featuring a small exhibtion, until December 10th 2006, which includes a small watercolour by David Roberts in its collection: "Tucked away in the dark recesses of the...
- David Roberts Volumes To Be Auctioned
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=976602006Inspired by an upcoming auction that will sell three of David Roberts's wonderful volumes of illustrations, this article delves into the life of the painter: "It was to be a book like no other: bigger,...
- Featured Article On Kom Ombo
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm Tour Egypt's most recent Featured Article, by Mark Andrews in entitled "Kom Ombo and the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris". This piece provides a good summary of the site, and is accompanied by some...