Ras el Abiad coast of Syria April 26th 1839 – Antique Print
![Ras el Abiad coast of Syria April 26th 1839, [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/68/68afd2efcf53-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 Ras el Abiad coast of Syria April 26th 1839. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ras el Abiad coast of Syria April 26th 1839
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Ras el Abiad, the "white cape" on the Syrian coast, is the subject here, and David Roberts sketched it on April 26, 1839, during his long journey through the Near East. The headland sits north of the Holy Land proper, along the stretch of Mediterranean shore that travelers passed on the way between Palestine and Beirut. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's on-site drawing into this color lithograph for the second volume of *The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia*, issued in London in parts between 1842 and 1845. The plates in that series did much to shape European images of the region in the nineteenth century, so this view is valuable both as a record of the coastline and as an example of the period's taste for landscape travel prints.
| 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. 9-10, p. 8. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 36, p. 34. Tooley, no. 66 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,434 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217480 |
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