Fountain of the Virgin Nazareth April 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Wall Art
![Fountain of the Virgin Nazareth April 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., [published 1842] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/ac0a8ec3e3af-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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Fountain of the Virgin Nazareth April 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts sketched this spring in Nazareth on April 21, 1839, during his journey through the Near East, and the scene shows the Fountain of the Virgin, the town's principal water source. Tradition holds that Mary drew water here, and the well has long served as a gathering place where women of the town came with their jars. The lithograph appeared in *The Holy Land* (London, 1842-1845), where Louis Haghe turned Roberts's on-site drawings into color plates. Its value lies in recording a daily village scene as it looked in the late 1830s, before the rapid changes of the later nineteenth century.
| Created / published | [published 1842] |
|---|---|
| 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. 1, pts. 3-4, p. 14. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 27, p. 10. Tooley, no. 28 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217445 |
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