Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai Feby 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic 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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This antique lithograph of Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai Feby 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai Feby 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Roberts sketched this interior at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai in February 1839, when he was touring the Holy Land and Egypt, and the lithograph carries that date in its title. The chapel he drew belongs to one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monasteries in the world, founded in the sixth century under Byzantine emperor Justinian at the foot of the mountain traditionally identified as the biblical Sinai. Louis Haghe's color lithograph was issued by F.G. Moon in London as part of Roberts's multi-volume *The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia*, published between 1842 and 1845, which made the monastery's interiors widely familiar to British readers.
| Created / published | [published between 1844 and 1845] |
|---|---|
| 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. 3, pts. 16-18, p. 12. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 108, p. 24-25. Tooley, no. 111 |
| Subjects | Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217524 |
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