Jardin des Oliviers, Jérusalem – Historic Print
(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 historic photograph captures Jardin des Oliviers, Jérusalem in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jardin des Oliviers, Jérusalem
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Few places in Jerusalem carry as much weight as the garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives, traditionally identified as Gethsemane, and this view turns to its trees rather than the city walls that dominate most images of the Holy City. It comes from Auguste Salzmann's *Jérusalem*, a study of the city's monuments published in Paris in 1856, two years after he photographed the sites during his travels in the Levant. The albumen prints in that volume let armchair readers in France study places they would never see for themselves. The olive trees are worth a closer look: their trunks are gnarled and hollowed with age, which helped give the garden its air of antiquity for nineteenth-century visitors.
| Created / published | Paris : Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1850-1860.Book illustrations 1850-1860.Albumen prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published in: Jérusalem; étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte, depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours / Auguste Salzmann. Paris: Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856, v. 2, no. 9. |
| Subjects | Gardens--Jerusalem--1850-1860. Olive trees--Jerusalem--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,657 × 3,762 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222267 |
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