Lower pool of Siloam Valley of Jehosophat – Antique Wall Art
![Lower pool of Siloam Valley of Jehosophat, [published 1842] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/0974daf32f77-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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Lower pool of Siloam Valley of Jehosophat comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lower pool of Siloam Valley of Jehosophat
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Few sites in Jerusalem carry as much scripture as the Lower Pool of Siloam, the basin at the foot of the Valley of Jehoshaphat shown here. The Gospel of John places a healing there, when Jesus tells a blind man to wash in its waters, and the pool drew pilgrims and travelers for centuries. David Roberts, the Scottish painter who toured the Near East in 1838 and 1839, sketched the scene on the spot. Louis Haghe then turned those drawings into color lithographs for the London edition of *The Holy Land*, issued between 1842 and 1845. The plate reflects the appetite of nineteenth-century European readers for biblical places rendered with a sense of firsthand accuracy.
| Created / published | [published 1842] |
|---|---|
| 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. 1, pts. 3-4, p. 8. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 1, pl. 16, p. 50. Tooley, no. 22 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217439 |
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