Entrance to Petra March 10th 1839 / David Roberts. – Antique Wall Art
![Entrance to Petra March 10th 1839 / David Roberts., [published between 1844 and 1845] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0f839d329891-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: Entrance to Petra March 10th 1839 / David Roberts., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Entrance to Petra March 10th 1839 / David Roberts.
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Roberts made this view of the approach to Petra on March 10, 1839, during the travels in the Near East that supplied the drawings for his Holy Land series. Few Europeans had seen the rock-cut city by then, since the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt had reached it only in 1812, and its Nabataean monuments were still largely unknown in Britain. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's sketch into a color lithograph for the series, which F.G. Moon published in London between 1842 and 1845. The print shows the narrow passage through the cliffs that leads toward the city, a view that shaped how Victorian audiences imagined the site.
| Created / published | [published between 1844 and 1845] |
|---|---|
| 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. 3, pts. 14-15, p. 10. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 92, p. 48-49. Tooley, no. 97 |
| Subjects | Petra (Extinct city)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,153 × 1,442 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217510 |
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