Approach to Mount Sinai Wady Barah Feby 17th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Approach to Mount Sinai Wady Barah Feby 17th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Approach to Mount Sinai Wady Barah Feby 17th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts sketched this view on February 17, 1839, during his journey through the Sinai peninsula, when the approach to Mount Sinai was reached through Wady Barah, the dry valley that winds through the granite mountains. The lithograph was prepared by Louis Haghe from Roberts's on-the-spot drawing and issued in the London series The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia, published by F. G. Moon between 1842 and 1845. Roberts, a Scottish painter, traveled the region in the late 1830s, and his views of biblical sites in full color helped define how European audiences pictured the Near East. The print is a useful record of the landscape as a Victorian traveler saw it.
| 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. 10. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 119, p. 50. Tooley, no. 121 |
| Subjects | Sinai, Mount (Egypt)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,989 × 3,996 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217533 |
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