Sepulchral monuments Petra March 9th 1839 – Vintage Wall Art
![Sepulchral monuments Petra March 9th 1839, [published between 1844 and 1845] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4e4ff12107fa-L.webp)
(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 Sepulchral monuments Petra March 9th 1839. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sepulchral monuments Petra March 9th 1839
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Few views of Petra from the 1830s travels have stayed as widely reproduced as this one, which shows the rock-cut tombs carved into the sandstone cliffs of the ancient Nabataean capital in what is now southern Jordan. David Roberts made the sketches on the spot in 1839, and Louis Haghe turned them into color lithographs for *The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia*, issued in parts by F. G. Moon in London between 1842 and 1845. Roberts's trip came when Petra was almost unknown to European readers, so his views of its façades helped shape how the site was pictured for decades afterward.
| 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. 16-18, p. 5. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 101, p. 70. Tooley, no. 104 |
| Subjects | Petra (Extinct city)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217517 |
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