Encampment of pilgrims Jericho April 1st 1839 – Vintage Print
![Encampment of pilgrims Jericho April 1st 1839, [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b1/b1a85133fc96-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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This antique lithograph of Encampment of pilgrims Jericho April 1st 1839 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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Encampment of pilgrims Jericho April 1st 1839
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Few images in David Roberts's Holy Land series capture the everyday texture of travel as directly as this view of an encampment at Jericho, dated April 1, 1839, when Roberts was making his sketches in the region. The lithograph shows pilgrims gathered in camp on the plain beside the ancient city, a setting long associated with the biblical story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho. Roberts's drawings were translated into color prints by Louis Haghe and published in London in parts between 1842 and 1845, so the scene reached European readers as a record of Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the nineteenth century.
| 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. 2. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 60, p. 26. Tooley, no. 45 |
| Subjects | Jericho--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,467 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217461 |
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