Chapel of the Convent of St. Saba April 5th 1839 / D Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print
![Chapel of the Convent of St. Saba April 5th 1839 / D Roberts, R.A., [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d1/d1348d19e532-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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Chapel of the Convent of St. Saba April 5th 1839 / D Roberts, R.A. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chapel of the Convent of St. Saba April 5th 1839 / D Roberts, R.A.
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Drawn on the spot on April 5, 1839, during David Roberts's tour of the Near East, this view shows the chapel inside the Convent of St. Saba, the monastery built into the cliffs of the Kidron Valley east of Bethlehem. Roberts, a Scottish painter and Royal Academy member, made his sketches in the field, and Louis Haghe transferred them to color lithographs for *The Holy Land*, issued in London in parts from 1842 to 1845. The series gave European readers some of their first detailed visual access to sites in Palestine, and its atmospheric views of monastic architecture were widely admired.
| 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. 8. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 103, p. 10. Tooley, no. 51 |
| Subjects | Mar Saba (Monastery)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217467 |
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