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Travel sketches

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Images of Travel sketches

292 images from works
  • Remains of the eastern portico of a temple at Baalbec, Lebanon. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Decorated columns under the portico of the temple at Dendera, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
  • Statue at the temple at Wadi Saboua, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Singapore: a police officer clearing two race-goers from the racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Temple at Philae, Egypt. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
  • Ascent of the lower ranges of Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Bathers at the banks of the Jordan river, with Achmet Aga, the governor of Jerusalem, with his guards, looking on. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Mountains with the monastery of St. Saba. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • A distant view of Jerusalem; some people with camels resting by a pool. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
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Works from the collections

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    Ruins at Medinet Habu, Thebes, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1847.

    David Roberts | Date: 1 May 1847 | Reference: 34287i
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    Ruined city of Beit Jibrin, or Eleutheropolis. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

    David Roberts | Date: [1843] | Reference: 36366i
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    Singapore: view along the beach by Singlap. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885 | Date: 1879 | Reference: 31779i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    Tree-ferns in an Australian forest with two hunters in the distance. Engraving by E. Brandard, c. 1873, after N. Chevalier.

    Chevalier, Nicolas, 1828-1902. | Date: [1873] | Reference: 20961i
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    Monastery of St. Catherine beneath Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

    David Roberts | Date: [1849] | Reference: 36153i
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Islamic architecture
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