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Bethlehem April 6th 1839 – Antique Wall Art

Bethlehem April 6th 1839, [published 1843] — antique lithograph
Bethlehem April 6th 1839, [published 1843]. Antique lithograph from the Religious collection.

(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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Bethlehem April 6th 1839

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David Roberts sketched Bethlehem on April 6, 1839, during the Scottish painter's long tour of the Near East, and this color lithograph by Louis Haghe carries that date in its title. The print appeared in the second volume of The Holy Land, published in London in parts between 1842 and 1845, where Haghe's stone-printing rendered Roberts's on-site drawings with a richness of tone that few contemporaries could match. Roberts's Holy Land views were enormously popular with Victorian audiences, who often encountered the sacred sites through such images before they could travel there themselves.

Created / published[published 1843]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreBook illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850.
NotesIllus. 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. 11-13, p. 12. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 53, p 8-9. Tooley, no. 84
SubjectsBethlehem--1840-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,465 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217498

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