Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium

Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium from around 1830 by David Roberts is another view of the great Gothic cathedral that he painted multiple times. The cathedral's soaring spire, the tallest in the Low Countries, made it one of the most dramatic architectural subjects in Northern Europe. 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 cathedral's towering presence is captured with Roberts's precise draftsmanship, the Gothic structure rendered with both documentary accuracy and atmospheric grandeur.