Tombs of Great Arab Saints to be seen in the Neighborhood of Rosetta, Egypt. Artist: Luigi Mayer (Italian, Rome () ca. 1755-1803). Dimensions: sheet: 13 5/16 x 21 1/4 in. (33.9 x 54 cm). Date: ca. 1800.Trained in Rome, Mayer was long employed by Sir Robert Ainslie, the British ambassador to the Ottoman court. The two traveled through Sicily, Turkey, and Egypt, where Mayer made drawings of important sites before accompanying his patron to England in 1794. This watercolor describes Muslim tombs at Rosetta, a town on the Nile between Cairo and Alexandria, and was reproduced in aquatint in Views in Egypt, a set of forty-eight prints published by Robert Bowyer in 1801. Characteristically, the artist enhances accurate architectural information with evocative detail, and shows women collecting water near turbaned men who guard the tombs. Such images informed European viewers about contemporary Egypt. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.