The Stone of Unction Holy Sepulchre March 30th 1839 / David Roberts. – Vintage Wall Art
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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 The Stone of Unction Holy Sepulchre March 30th 1839 / David Roberts.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Stone of Unction Holy Sepulchre March 30th 1839 / David Roberts.
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The Stone of Unction, the slab in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where tradition holds Jesus's body was prepared for burial, is the focus of this lithograph, dated to March 30, 1839, the day David Roberts sketched it on the spot. Roberts, a Scottish painter, spent months in the Levant in the late 1830s, and his drawings were turned into color lithographs by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, published in London in parts between 1842 and 1845. The plate shows pilgrims and worshippers crowding around the stone beneath the church's dim, lamp-lit interior, a scene that drew large European audiences who had never traveled to Jerusalem.
| 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. 3-4, p. 4. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 1, pl. 14, p. 46. Tooley, no. 18 |
| Subjects | Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,174 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217435 |
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