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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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David Roberts
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(1796–1864) Scottish artist who worked for fourteen years as a theatrical scene-painter before devoting himself, from 1830, to the topographical views in exotic lands for which he is famous. In 1832-3 he visited Spain and Morocco. He next undertook, in 1838, a far greater journey - to the regions bordering the eastern Mediterranean from Lebanon to Egypt. (In both these tours he was travelling and sketching at the same time as his younger contemporary Spanish *Lewis). Roberts' work became extremely well known through the publication of his six-volume The Holy Land, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia (1842-9). He also made frequent other sketching tours - throughout most of western Europe, in his native Scotland and, late in his life, along the Thames.
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