Jaffa ancient Joppa April 16th 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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Step back in time with Jaffa ancient Joppa April 16th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Jaffa ancient Joppa April 16th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Joppa, the old port that now forms part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, is the subject here, drawn by David Roberts on April 16, 1839, during his tour of the Levant. The scene carries the weight of the town's biblical associations, since Joppa appears in the stories of Jonah and of the cedar timber shipped there for Solomon's Temple. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's sketch into a color lithograph, and it was issued by F.G. Moon in the second volume of *The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia* between 1842 and 1845. Such prints made the Holy Land visible to British readers who could not travel there themselves.
| 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. 2. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 74, p. 66-67. Tooley, no. 60 |
| Subjects | Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,474 × 1,174 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217474 |
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