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Siege of Jerusalem by Crusaders, 1099 – Antique Wall Art

Siege of Jerusalem by Crusaders, 1099 — historic print
Siege of Jerusalem by Crusaders, 1099. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 rare historic print captures Siege of Jerusalem by Crusaders, 1099 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Among the many First Crusade pictures on this board, this woodcut shows the siege of Jerusalem in 1099, when crusading forces broke into the city in July after a long assault. It appeared in a Dutch edition of Robertus Remensis's *Historia itineris contra Turcos*, printed in Gouda around 1486, which places it among the early printed books known as incunabula. Woodblocks like this were set into the printed page alongside type, and printers often reused them across different books. The image shows how late medieval readers pictured the crusades, through bold, simplified scenes of walls, banners and armed men.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notesca. 1486.
SubjectsIllus. in: Robertus Remensis, Historia itineris contra Turcos (Dutch), Gouda, ca. 1486. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Crusaders; BI; BI--WORKS; RBD; Palestine--Hist.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,016 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133922

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