Ruins of the Church of St. John Sabaste 1839 / David Roberts. – Historic Reproduction
![Ruins of the Church of St. John Sabaste 1839 / David Roberts., [published 1842] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d6/d6f757ade693-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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Ruins of the Church of St. John Sabaste 1839 / David Roberts. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ruins of the Church of St. John Sabaste 1839 / David Roberts.
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Few places in the Holy Land carry as many layers of tradition as Sebaste, the hilltop town above the plain of Samaria, and this print shows the ruined Church of St. John there. Crusaders built the church in the twelfth century on a site linked with John the Baptist, and by the time Roberts drew it in 1839 the building had fallen into ruin. Roberts made his sketches on his tour of Egypt and the Near East, and Louis Haghe turned them into color lithographs for *The Holy Land*, published in London between 1842 and 1845. Notice how the broken walls sit against the open hillside, a choice typical of the period's taste for picturesque views of ancient sites.
| Created / published | [published 1842] |
|---|---|
| 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. 1, pts. 5-6, p. 13. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 81, p. 18. Tooley, no. 42 |
| Subjects | Sabastiyah (Israel)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,447 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217459 |
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