Tsur ancient Tyre April 27th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print
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(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 rare antique lithograph captures Tsur ancient Tyre April 27th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tsur ancient Tyre April 27th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts sketched Tyre, the ancient Phoenician port on the Lebanese coast, on April 27, 1839, during the tour that produced his Holy Land drawings. Louis Haghe turned the sketch into a color lithograph for the second volume of F.G. Moon's Holy Land series, published between 1842 and 1845. Travelers of the period came to Tyre with its biblical and classical past in mind, and Alexander the Great's siege of the city in 332 BC, when he built a causeway to the offshore island, shows how old the site already was.
| Created / published | [published 1843] |
|---|---|
| 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. 2, pts. 9-10, p. 10. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 39, p. 42. Tooley, no. 68 |
| Subjects | Tyre (Lebanon)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217482 |
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