Fortress of Akabah Arabia Petra Feb. 28th 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Fortress of Akabah Arabia Petra Feb. 28th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fortress of Akabah Arabia Petra Feb. 28th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Dated February 28, 1839, this color lithograph is titled "Fortress of Akabah" and shows Petra, the rock-cut city in southern Jordan. David Roberts made the drawing on the spot during his tour of Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838 and 1839, when few European artists had reached Petra at all. The sheet was printed in London in the mid-1840s for *The Holy Land*, with the stone work by Louis Haghe, and the series helped make Petra's rose-colored cliffs familiar to Western audiences.
| Created / published | [published between 1844 and 1845] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| 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. 3, pts. 16-18, p. 7. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 122, p. 56. Tooley, no. 106 Exhibited: Jordanian Display" at the Library of Congress |
| Subjects | Petra (Extinct city)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217519 |
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