Isle_of_Graia3.jpg


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Author
Artist:
David Roberts (1796–1864) wikidata:Q369776 q:it:David Roberts
David Roberts
Alternative names
D. Roberts
Description Scottish painter
Date of birth/death 24 October 1796 Edit this at Wikidata 25 November 1864 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stockbridge, Edinburgh London
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creator QS:P170,Q369776
Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885, lithographer.
Description
العربية: لوحة "جزيرة على قمَّة خليج العقبة بالصحراء العربيَّة النبطيَّة"، تظهر فيها جزيرة فرعون في القسم الشمالي من خليج العقبة مُقابل شاطئ شبه جزيرة سيناء بمصر.
English: Isle of Graia Gulf of Akabah Arabia Petraea , depicting the Pharaoh's Island in the northern Gulf of Aqaba off the shore of Egypt's eastern Sinai Peninsula .
Français : Isle of Graia Golfe de l'Arabie Pétrée Akabah , illustration dépeignant l'île du Pharaon dans le nord du golfe d'Aqaba, au large de la péninsule du Sinaï de l'Égypte orientale.
Date 27 February 1839
date QS:P571,+1839-02-27T00:00:00Z/11
Source/Photographer

Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 3, pts. 16-18, p. 8. Library of Congress, Reproduction number LC-USZC4-3525

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Isle of Graia Gulf of Akabah Arabia Petraea, 1839 lithograph of a trade caravan by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

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