Excavated mansions of Petra, Petra, March 7, 1839 – Historic Print
![Excavated mansions of Petra, Petra, March 7, 1839, [published 1849]. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6b/6b7414a2ff0a-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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This rare antique lithograph captures Excavated mansions of Petra, Petra, March 7, 1839 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Excavated mansions of Petra, Petra, March 7, 1839
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Carved into rose-colored sandstone cliffs, the rock-cut facades in this view are the "excavated mansions" of Petra, the Nabataean capital that Johann Ludwig Burckhardt brought back to European attention in 1812. The scene was sketched on March 7, 1839, by Scottish painter David Roberts, who traveled through Egypt and the Holy Land that year. This color lithograph appeared in 1849 as part of *The Holy Land*, the multivolume series of Roberts's views that gave many readers their first detailed images of the region's monuments.
| Created / published | [published 1849]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Subjects | Petra (Extinct city)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,438 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217515 |
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