Dômes du St Sépulchre, Jérusalem – Historic Reproduction
(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: Dômes du St Sépulchre, Jérusalem, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dômes du St Sépulchre, Jérusalem
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The domes in question crown the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the structure that Christian tradition holds marks the site of Jesus's crucifixion and burial, and this albumen print shows them as they stood in the 1850s. It comes from Auguste Salzmann's *Jérusalem*, a large photographic survey of the city's monuments published in Paris by Gidé and J. Baudry in 1856. Salzmann's project was among the earliest attempts to document Jerusalem's architecture photographically, and his plates were notable for their precision at a time when the city was still reached mainly by long overland or sea journeys. Looking closely, viewers can see how the church's roofline blends several building campaigns across many centuries.
| Created / published | Paris : Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Albumen prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published in: Jérusalem; étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte, depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours / Auguste Salzmann. Paris: Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856, v. 3, no. 10. |
| Subjects | Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)--1850-1860. Churches--Jerusalem--1850-1860. Domes--Jerusalem--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,756 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222258 |
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