Banks of the Jordan April 2nd 1839 – Vintage Wall Art
![Banks of the Jordan April 2nd 1839, [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cf/cf5b8ef52bd3-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.)
Description
Banks of the Jordan April 2nd 1839 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Banks of the Jordan April 2nd 1839
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The date in the title, April 2, 1839, places this view of the Jordan within the tour David Roberts made through Egypt, Nubia and the Holy Land in 1838 and 1839. Roberts sketched the scene on the spot, and Louis Haghe turned those drawings into a color lithograph. It appeared in the second volume of *The Holy Land*, issued in parts by F.G. Moon in London between 1842 and 1845. The series brought the biblical landscape to a wide Victorian audience that was eager for accurate images of places they knew only from scripture.
| 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. 4. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 3, pl. 63, p. 34. Tooley, no. 47 |
| Subjects | Jordan River--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,473 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217463 |
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