Circular temple at Baalbec May 7th 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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A window into the past: Circular temple at Baalbec May 7th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Circular temple at Baalbec May 7th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts chose the small circular temple at Baalbek, the ancient Heliopolis in what is now Lebanon, rather than the larger ruins nearby. He sketched it on May 7, 1839, during the Near East tour that supplied the drawings for his Holy Land series. Louis Haghe turned those sketches into this color lithograph, published in London between 1842 and 1845. The rounded colonnade and its setting show how European audiences first came to know the Roman monuments of Baalbek through prints like this one.
| 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. 11-13, p. 9. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 51, p 68. Tooley, no. 81 |
| Subjects | Ba'labakk (Lebanon)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,453 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217495 |
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