Antique Art

Arabesque Art Gallery has a large collection of
Old Maps of Arabia and art by David Roberts.

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Old Maps of Arabia

The first collections of maps in bound books or atlases date from the Renaissance period in Europe, with the invention of printing. The early cartographers based their maps of the Arabian Peninsula on maps made over one thousand years earlier by the Roman geographer, Ptolemus. Incredibly, this was the best source of information they had -produced before the Dark Ages - on virtually unexplored and unmapped areas of the then known world. Ptolemy's maps formed the basis of mapping until well into the 17th century.
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David Roberts A Background of the Artist

One of the most renowned British artists of the Victorian era (mid 1800 s) , Robert's major work was the production of over 200 lithographs, published after a year spent travelling around the Middle East in 1839. They have now become some of the most sought after and collected art from this period.

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