Did You Know?

David Roberts began pursuing his artistic career as an apprentice to a housepainter and decorator at the age of 10. After seven years of taking evening art classes, he began to sketch for a traveling circus.

The journals that you hear narrated in David Roberts’ Egypt eBook are highly sought after collectors’ items, worth as much money as his legendary lithographs.

David Roberts spent 8 years developing his first volume of Egypt and Nubia. His first customer was none other than Queen Victoria. She later commissioned David to paint a picture of the opening of the ‘Great Exhibition’ of 1851.

David Roberts had to sink his “dhahabiyeh,” which was the boat he had commissioned to sail down the Nile to rid it of rats.