Nablous, the ancient Shechem – Historic 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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This historic photograph of Nablous, the ancient Shechem brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Nablous, the ancient Shechem
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Nablus, the site of ancient Shechem, is the subject here, pictured as a town set against the hills of the central West Bank. The print is an albumen photograph made by Francis Frith, the English photographer who traveled through Egypt, Sinai and the Levant in the 1850s, and it appeared as plate 27 in his book "Sinai and Palestine," published in London around 1862. Frith's Holy Land views were prized by Victorian readers who knew the region through scripture, and Shechem itself is a biblical city mentioned in the books of Genesis and Joshua. Look for how the built-up town sits in the valley between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, a landscape that shaped its history.
| Created / published | [1862?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs 1850-1860.Book illustrations 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Published in: Sinai and Palestine / Francis Frith. London : William Mackenzie, [1862?, pl. 27]. |
| Subjects | Nablus--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,637 × 3,712 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222031 |
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