Citadel of Sidon April 28th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Wall Art
![Citadel of Sidon April 28th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a24482adebdb-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Citadel of Sidon April 28th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Citadel of Sidon April 28th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Drawn on the spot in April 1839, this view shows the sea fortress at Sidon, a stronghold on a rock just off the Lebanese coast that had been rebuilt and reinforced by Crusaders and later by Ottoman rulers. David Roberts, the Scottish painter and Royal Academician, traveled through the Levant in the late 1830s and turned his sketches into finished work. Louis Haghe then transferred the image into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, published in London by F. G. Moon in the early 1840s. The print is a useful record of how European travelers saw the Levant's ruined and working monuments at the time.
| 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. 3. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 44, p. 52. Tooley, no. 75 |
| Subjects | Sidon (Lebanon)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217489 |
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