Jacobs Well at Shechem April 17th 1839 – 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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Jacobs Well at Shechem April 17th 1839 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jacobs Well at Shechem April 17th 1839
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Few sites in the Holy Land carry as much scriptural weight as the well outside Shechem, which tradition links to the patriarch Jacob and which the Gospel of John places at the scene of Jesus's conversation with a Samaritan woman. David Roberts sketched it on April 17, 1839, near the town now called Nablus, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into this color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, published in London by F. G. Moon between 1842 and 1845. Roberts's plates were widely admired by Victorian readers who could not make the journey themselves, and this view gives a sense of the site as he found it.
| 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. 10. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 77, p. 8-9. Tooley, no. 39 |
| Subjects | Nablus--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,475 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217456 |
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