Ascent to the summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Wall Art
![Ascent to the summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1844 and 1845] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/2477e8bfba7c-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Ascent to the summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ascent to the summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts's lithograph shows the climb up Mount Sinai as he made it on February 20, 1839, a date printed right in the title, so the picture records a specific day rather than a generic view of the mountain. It was one of the plates in his three-volume The Holy Land, issued in parts by F. G. Moon in London between 1842 and 1845, with the stone work done by Louis Haghe after Roberts's sketches made on the spot. Roberts traveled through Egypt and the Near East in the late 1830s, and his images of biblical sites were enormously popular with British readers who could not make the journey themselves. The color lithograph is worth looking at for its handling of the rugged granite peaks and the small figures making their way upward.
| 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. 19-20, p. 3. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 112, p. 34. Tooley, no. 114 |
| Subjects | Sinai, Mount (Egypt)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,162 × 1,480 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217527 |
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