Shrine of Saint Gomar at Lierre, Belgium

Shrine of Saint Gomar at Lierre, Belgium from 1849 by David Roberts documents Gothic church architecture in the Belgian town of Lier. Roberts's Belgian travels added to his comprehensive visual documentation of Northern European Gothic architecture. His success with lithographic publications of his Middle Eastern travels made Roberts's images of ancient monuments available to a wide public and defined the Victorian visual imagination of the Holy Land and Egypt.

The church interior with its shrine is rendered with Roberts's precise technique, the Gothic space captured with both architectural accuracy and atmospheric depth.