The Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza, by David Roberts
The Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza glow in the evening light, painted by the Scottish artist David Roberts during his tour of Egypt in 1838–39.
David Roberts spent eleven months travelling the Nile and the Holy Land between 1838 and 1839, filling sketchbooks that he later worked up into the lithographs of his celebrated The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. This view of the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza, already thousands of years old when Roberts arrived, helped ignite the Victorian fascination with ancient Egypt and shaped how Europeans pictured the pharaohs for a century afterward. The pyramids themselves, raised in the Fourth Dynasty as tombs for Khufu and his successors, remain the last standing wonder of the ancient world — read more in our piece on the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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