Fountain of Job Valley of Hinnom – Historic 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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Step back in time with Fountain of Job Valley of Hinnom, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fountain of Job Valley of Hinnom
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The Fountain of Job, known in Arabic as Bir Ayyub, sits where the Valley of Hinnom meets the Kidron Valley just south of Jerusalem's old walls. Tradition ties the spring to the biblical Job, and the valley's name became linked with Gehenna, a symbol of punishment in Jewish and Christian writing. David Roberts made the drawing during his 1839 journey through the Near East, and Louis Haghe turned it into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, published in London in parts from 1842 to 1845. Its stone-walled setting and the figures at the water's edge show how European readers of that era pictured biblical sites.
| 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. 6. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 1, pl. 19, p. 56. Tooley, no. 20 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,482 × 1,193 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217437 |
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