Temple called El Khasne Petra March 7th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage Wall Art
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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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A window into the past: Temple called El Khasne Petra March 7th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Temple called El Khasne Petra March 7th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Known to its Bedouin guides as El Khasne, the rock-cut facade shown here is the monument now most often called the Treasury at Petra, drawn as David Roberts saw it on March 7, 1839, during his journey through the Near East. Carved into rose-colored sandstone at the end of the narrow gorge called the Siq, its columned front looked startlingly grand to European eyes. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's sketch into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, published in London by F. G. Moon between 1842 and 1845, which helped fix Petra's image in the Western imagination.
| 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. 14-15, p. 6. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 89, p. 40-41. Tooley, no. 93 |
| Subjects | Petra (Extinct city)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,158 × 1,477 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217506 |
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