The Dead Sea looking towards Moab April 4th 1839 / 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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The Dead Sea looking towards Moab April 4th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Dead Sea looking towards Moab April 4th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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The Dead Sea, seen from the western shore with the mountains of Moab rising across the water, is the subject of this lithograph, which David Roberts drew on his 1839 journey through the Holy Land. Roberts, a Scottish painter who had reached Egypt and Palestine that year, made his sketches on the spot, and the print was worked up by the lithographer Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, the large series issued in London between 1842 and 1845. Its date of April 4, 1839, ties the view to a particular day of travel, and the hard light on the still, bitter water shows why Roberts's views of the region were so widely admired in his 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. 7-8, p. 6. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 76, p. 70. Tooley, no. 49 |
| Subjects | Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,458 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217465 |
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