Sebasté, ancient Samaria, April 17th, 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Sebasté, ancient Samaria, April 17th, 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sebasté, ancient Samaria, April 17th, 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Few places in the Holy Land carry as many layers of history as Sebastia, the hilltop village built on the site of ancient Samaria. David Roberts sketched it on April 17, 1839, during his journey through the region, and Louis Haghe turned the drawing into this color lithograph for the first volume of *The Holy Land*, issued in London in parts between 1842 and 1845. Herod the Great rebuilt the city in the late first century B.C. and named it Sebaste in honor of the emperor Augustus, a name that survives in the village's modern Arabic and Hebrew forms. Roberts's views did much to shape how European readers pictured biblical sites, so the print records that vision as well as the ruins themselves.
| 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 & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 1, pts. 5-6, p. 14. Tooley, no. 43 |
| Subjects | Sabastiyah (Israel)--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,446 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216111 |
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