Dreams of Egypt. Close your eyes and you could be out on the Nile in one of those tourist houseboats listening to the crocodiles chomp. Plates from the 1848 “Egypt & Nubia From Drawings Made On The Spot”. David Roberts, watercolorist. Louis Haghe, lithographer.

"Statues of Memnon at Thebes, during the Inundation." — “Statues of Memnon at Thebes, during the Inundation.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.252

"Thebes, Great Hall at Karnac." — “Thebes, Great Hall at Karnac.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.187

"Interior of the Temple of Aboo-Simbel." — “Interior of the Temple of Aboo-Simbel.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.261

"Portico of the Temple Edfou, Upper Egypt." — “Portico of the Temple Edfou, Upper Egypt.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.148

"Libyan Chain of Mountains, from the Temple of Luxor." — “Libyan Chain of Mountains, from the Temple of Luxor.” Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.166

"Hagar Setsilis." — “Hagar Setsilis.”Color lithograph. Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the public domain. via

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