Roberts (David, RA)

one of the most famous and sought after of Roberts’ views of classical Egypt during the age of archaeological rediscovery as the desert sands gradually reveal the great other worldly sphinx, from the standard edition of ‘Egypt & Nubia’ with the title printed in the lower margin,

tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe, with later hand-colouring, 355 x 530 mm. (14 x 20 7/8 in), a few minor marginal defects all well outside the image and title,