St. Jean d'Acre April 24th 1839 / David Roberts. – Historic Reproduction
![St. Jean d'Acre April 24th 1839 / David Roberts., [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/0089795cb449-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: St. Jean d'Acre April 24th 1839 / David Roberts., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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St. Jean d'Acre April 24th 1839 / David Roberts.
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Drawn on the spot on April 24, 1839, this view of Acre records the Mediterranean port as David Roberts found it during his tour of the Holy Land. The town was then under Egyptian rule, only a year before British, Austrian and Ottoman forces bombarded it in 1840 and returned it to Ottoman control. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's sketch into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, which F.G. Moon published in London in parts between 1842 and 1845. The print is valued as a document of the city's appearance just before those upheavals.
| Created / published | [published 1843] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 2, pts. 9-10, p. 6. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 35, p. 32-33. Tooley, no. 64 |
| Subjects | Acre (Israel)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217478 |
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