Tsur ancient Tyre from the Isthmus April 27th 1839 / David Roberts. – 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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This antique lithograph of Tsur ancient Tyre from the Isthmus April 27th 1839 / David Roberts. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tsur ancient Tyre from the Isthmus April 27th 1839 / David Roberts.
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Roberts drew Tyre from its isthmus on April 27, 1839, showing the city the way it looked from the narrow land link to the mainland. Tyre was a Phoenician port that once stood on an island, and the causeway Alexander the Great built to reach it during his siege in 332 BCE is what joined it to the shore. Roberts made the sketch on his journey through the Near East, and Louis Haghe turned it into this color lithograph for the second volume of *The Holy Land*, published in London in the early 1840s. The series was prized for bringing the region's ruins and towns to readers who could not travel there themselves.
| 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. 9-10, p. 12. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 2, pl. 38, p. 40-41. Tooley, no. 70 |
| Subjects | Tyre (Lebanon)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,463 × 1,192 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217484 |
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