Mount Seir Wady el Ghor March 4th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Mount Seir Wady el Ghor March 4th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mount Seir Wady el Ghor March 4th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.
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Dated March 4, 1839, this plate depicts Mount Seir, the rugged range of Edom, and the Wady el Ghor below it, landscapes David Roberts reached during his journey through the region that year. He drew the scene on the spot, and Louis Haghe transferred it to stone for a color lithograph in *The Holy Land*, a series published in London by F.G. Moon between 1842 and 1845. Roberts's sketches gave European readers of the period one of their most widely circulated visual accounts of biblical places, and this plate, which appears in the third volume, shows how he paired careful topography with rich tonal color.
| 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. 3. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 87, p. 34. Tooley, no. 90 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,449 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217503 |
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