Port of Tyre April 27th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Reproduction
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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 Port of Tyre April 27th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Port of Tyre April 27th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Dated April 27, 1839, this view shows the harbor at Tyre, the ancient Phoenician port on the coast of present-day Lebanon. David Roberts made the sketch during his tour of the Near East that year, and Louis Haghe turned it into a color lithograph for the second volume of *The Holy Land*, published in London in the 1840s. Tyre had been a major trading center for centuries, and Alexander the Great's siege in 332 BC famously joined the island city to the mainland with a causeway, a change that makes the shoreline in such views worth studying closely.
| 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. 9. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 37, p. 36. Tooley, no. 67 |
| Subjects | Tyre (Lebanon)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217481 |
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