Lesser temple of Baalbec May 5th 1839 looking towards Mount Lebanon / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print
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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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A window into the past: Lesser temple of Baalbec May 5th 1839 looking towards Mount Lebanon / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lesser temple of Baalbec May 5th 1839 looking towards Mount Lebanon / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts dated this view to May 5, 1839, when he sketched the lesser temple at Baalbek with the peaks of Mount Lebanon rising behind it. The Roman city sits in the Beqaa Valley of present-day Lebanon, and its monumental temples were among the most striking ruins Western travelers encountered in the Levant. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's drawing into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, a multivolume series published in London in the early 1840s. The series gave European readers a detailed picture of sites they would rarely see in person, and this plate shows how the ancient stonework stood against the open landscape.
| 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. 7. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 48, p. 62. Tooley, no. 79 |
| Subjects | Ba'labakk (Lebanon)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217493 |
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