Christian Church of St George at Lud ancient Lydda March 29 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Historic Print
![Christian Church of St George at Lud ancient Lydda March 29 1839 / David Roberts, R.A., [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c3/c3ee1249566b-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Christian Church of St George at Lud ancient Lydda March 29 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christian Church of St George at Lud ancient Lydda March 29 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Drawn on the spot on March 29, 1839, this view shows the Church of St George at Lydda, the town now called Lod, where tradition holds that the soldier-saint George was buried. David Roberts made the sketch during his journey through the Near East in the late 1830s, and Louis Haghe turned it into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, issued in parts by F.G. Moon between 1842 and 1845. Roberts's record of the stone church and the modest town around it is valued as a view of the region before the large changes of later decades.
| 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. 1. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 72, p. 58. Tooley, no. 59 |
| Subjects | Lod (Israel)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217473 |
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