Beit Jebrin March 7th 1839 – Vintage Print
![Beit Jebrin March 7th 1839, [published 1843] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f4/f44a30025b63-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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A window into the past: Beit Jebrin March 7th 1839, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Beit Jebrin March 7th 1839
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Beit Jebrin, the ruined town in the Judean lowlands that David Roberts drew on March 7, 1839, sits here as a crumbling Crusader-era shell rather than a living settlement. Roberts made his sketches during the tour of Egypt, Nubia and the Holy Land that produced his famous series, and Louis Haghe turned them into color lithographs for London publication between 1842 and 1845. The plate was issued in the second volume of The Holy Land, a work that gave Victorian readers a wide audience for biblical sites they would likely never see in person.
| 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. 11. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 82, p. 20. Tooley, no. 53 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217469 |
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