Fountain at Cana April 21st 1839 – Historic Reproduction
![Fountain at Cana April 21st 1839, [published 1842] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2d/2dbf41efbb26-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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This antique lithograph of Fountain at Cana April 21st 1839 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Fountain at Cana April 21st 1839
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Cana, the Galilean village where the Gospel of John places the wedding at which Jesus turned water into wine, is the subject here, and David Roberts sketched this fountain there on April 21, 1839, the date given in the title. Roberts made his drawings during his travels through Egypt, Nubia, and the Levant that year, and Louis Haghe transferred them to stone for the lithographs. Published in color in parts from 1842 to 1845 as *The Holy Land*, the print is worth noticing for how it treats an ordinary water source as a scene of everyday village life, the kind of spring that supplied local households long before travelers came looking for its biblical associations.
| 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. 5-6, p. 3. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 33, p. 26. Tooley, no. 32 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,458 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217449 |
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