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The Pool of Bethesda Jerusalem April 12th 1839 / David Roberts. – Historic Print

The Pool of Bethesda Jerusalem April 12th 1839 / David Roberts., [published 1842] — antique lithograph
The Pool of Bethesda Jerusalem April 12th 1839 / David Roberts., [published 1842]. Antique lithograph from the Middle East & Holy Land collection.

(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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Step back in time with The Pool of Bethesda Jerusalem April 12th 1839 / David Roberts., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Pool of Bethesda Jerusalem April 12th 1839 / David Roberts.

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The Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem is the subject here, a site tied in the Gospel of John to the healing at the pool, and Roberts drew it on the spot in April 1839 during his tour of the Near East. The lithograph was published in London in 1842 as one plate in The Holy Land, a multi-volume series issued between 1842 and 1845 and printed in color by Louis Haghe from Roberts's sketches. Roberts was a Scottish painter whose views of Egypt, Syria and Palestine were enormously popular with Victorian readers, many of whom had never seen these places. Look closely at the ruined arches and the tangle of masonry around the basin, which show how the site looked to a European visitor in the 1830s.

Created / published[published 1842]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreBook illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850.
NotesIllus. 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. 1-2, p. 12. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 1, pl. 11, p. 40-41. Tooley, no. 11
SubjectsBethesda, Pool of (Jerusalem)--1840-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,455 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217428

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