180153 - David Roberts. British. Tinted lithograph, hand coloured. 'Semusa', Mar 16 1839. Pub. F G Moon. Half Plate 33x23cm.

David Roberts RA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region. These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter.