Plate 1 Portrait of David Roberts RA - After Charles Baugniet

This important portrait of David Roberts was painted by Charles Baugniet (1814-1886) in 1844. Like Louis Haghe, Baugniet was from Belgium and also a specialist lithographer and painter. He was particularly renowned for his portrait paintings (he also did one of Charles Dickens) which is why Haghe must have employed him for the Holy Land and Egypt series. Roberts in the work is seen holding his sketchbook whilst sat on an ancient Egyptian ruin.
 
The drawings and watercolours from David Roberts's tour of the Holy Land and Egypt were collated together into folios and released over a seven year period by the publisher F.G. Moon from 20 Threadneedle Street London. This lithograph is an original First Edition version (1842-1849) and is the only one not based on an original watercolour by Roberts himself.
 
Medium: Original First Edition Lithograph, Full Plate, hand coloured on thick woven paper.
 
Full Plate 1.
 
Inscribed 'Drawn on Stone from Life by C Baugniet, London 1844', 49.8  x 34.2 cm (paper size), mounted.