Petra March 7th 1839 – Vintage Print
![Petra March 7th 1839, [published between 1844 and 1845] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb7f0601a375-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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Petra March 7th 1839 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petra March 7th 1839
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Dated March 7th, 1839, this view shows Petra, the rose-red city the Nabataeans carved into sandstone cliffs in southern Jordan. Few European readers had seen it before David Roberts reached the site and made his sketches. Louis Haghe turned Roberts's drawing into a color lithograph for *The Holy Land*, published in London by F.G. Moon between 1842 and 1845. The plate helped fix the ruins in the Western imagination and remains one of the best-known images of the site from that era.
| Created / published | [published between 1844 and 1845] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| 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. 3, pts. 14-15, p. 4. Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 4, pl. 86, p. 32-33. Tooley, no. 91 Exhibited: Jordanian Display" at the Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,134 × 1,451 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217504 |
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