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David Roberts passed through Cairo, Mount Sinai and Petra on his journey to the Holy Land in 1838–1839. The book of lithographs produced from sketches on this is still in print today. These sketches also became the inspiration for paintings like this and Pilgrims Approaching Jerusalem that hangs nearby. Roberts believed Egypt was ‘untrodden’ territory for British artists. He saw his travels as a mission to record the country’s architecture. He did not know that he was there at the same time as William James Muller, whose work also hangs in the College collection. Napoleon’s expeditions in Egypt (1798–1801) had sparked the beginning of modern Egyptology and ‘Egyptomania’. Roberts saw his work as a foil to the famously inaccurate records of French artists.
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham
Title
A Street in Cairo, Egypt
Date
1846
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76.1 x W 63.4 cm
Accession number
THC0064
Acquisition method
purchased for Thomas Holloway, 1883
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
David Roberts RA 1846
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX England
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