Polski opis

Prawdziwy rarytas dla kolekcjonerów. Ten ebook zawiera jedynie grafiki Davida Robertsa, z jego podróży po świecie Bliskiego Wschodu, Egipcie i Nubii. Jego rysunki do dziś fascynujące świeżością i egzotyką pochodzą podróży odbytych między 1838 i 1839 rokiem. Przepiękne pejzaże, zasypane piaskiem świątynie, codzienne życie krajów arabskich w XIX wieku fascynowały wielu i wprowadziły do dziś panującą egiptomanię. Serdecznie polecam.

 English description

David Roberts, a stage decorator from Scotland, is considerd the greatest of the Holy Land artists. His first visit to Jerusalem was in 1839 and his travels to the East continued till his death in 1864. His many illustrations were published in 1855 in three volumes where many views were dedicated to Jerusalem and her surroundings, however the most famous of his drawings are those of Egypt. We can see on these drawings temples in sand, every day life in arabic countries during XIX century and wonderful landscapes. The illustrations were immidiately highly praised and inspired many other artists to follow, visit Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land and record their landscapes and the holy places. In these ebook you can find just his drawings, but there is really alot of them. Enjoy.

The genius and sensitivity of the justly celebrated nineteenth-century Scottish artist David Roberts are fully revealed in this outstanding special three-volume collector’s edition that reproduces in unprecedented print quality all 247 of Roberts’ published drawings of Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1838 and 1839, Roberts spent eleven months traveling and sketching throughout Egypt from Alexandria to Abu Simbel and through Sinai to Petra, Jerusalem, Palestine, and Lebanon. The 247 lithographs that Belgian engraver Louis Haghe then produced at the rate of one a month from the drawings executed during Roberts’ extraordinary trip were published in six volumes by Francis Graham Moon, as The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia (1842–46) and Egypt and Nubia (1846–49). This monumental work assured the artist of a fame that has lasted until the modern day. Once again in this limited collector’s edition, the wonders that Roberts saw on his trip and the style of life in the Middle East in the middle of the nineteenth century are brought vividly to life by the pictures.
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