Descent upon the Valley of Jordan – Vintage Print
![Descent upon the Valley of Jordan, [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/9789081fa752-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 antique lithograph of Descent upon the Valley of Jordan brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Descent upon the Valley of Jordan
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The view looks down over the Jordan Valley, a long trench of land cutting through the hills of the Holy Land, and David Roberts drew it on the spot during his travels in the early 1840s. The plate was lithographed by Louis Haghe and published in London by F.G. Moon as part of the multi-volume set The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. Roberts's sketches, turned into hand-colored stone prints, gave European readers of the period a vivid sense of landscapes and ruins that many had only read about in scripture.
| 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. 7-8, p. 3. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 61, p. 28. Tooley, no. 46 |
| Subjects | Jordan River Valley--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,458 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217462 |
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