Semua ruins March 16th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage 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 Semua ruins March 16th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Semua ruins March 16th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Dated March 16, 1839, this color lithograph shows ruins that David Roberts sketched on the spot during his travels through the Holy Land. Roberts, a Scottish painter and Royal Academician, made the original drawings, and Louis Haghe transferred them to stone for *The Holy Land*, published in London by F.G. Moon between 1842 and 1845. Plates like this one shaped how European readers pictured the biblical landscape, and the series remains one of the most widely reproduced records of the region in the 1830s.
| 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. 7-8, p. 12. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 58, p. 20. Tooley, no. 55 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,478 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217470 |
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