With Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts, London

by whom sold to the present owner in 1975

Lithographed:

By Louis Haghe for Egypt and Nubia (vol. I), in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Egypt and Nubia, London 1849, pl. 33 (with the above title) & 1856, vol. IV, p. 158 (as Colossal Statue at the Entrance to the Temple of Luxor)  

On his journey up the Nile, Roberts visited the Temple of Luxor on 23^rd October 1838, and he noted in his journal that ‘At each side of the gateway there are two colossal sitting figures buried up to the chest and sadly mauled like everything else that came within reach of the hammer.’ On the return journey there was more time to make drawings and once he had arrived back at Luxor in late November he spent several days making drawings in the vicinity. On 1^st December he wrote ‘December and the weather like our summer! Commenced and finished at Luxor…’.¹ We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn for her help in caཧtaloguing this lot.

1. MS Eastern Journal, National 🔯Library of Scot💖land, Edinburgh