Mosque of Omar, shewing the site of the temple – Historic Reproduction
![Mosque of Omar, shewing the site of the temple, [published 1842] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fd/fda91917104a-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Mosque of Omar, shewing the site of the temple. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few views of Jerusalem's Temple Mount from this period carry the title *Mosque of Omar, shewing the site of the temple*, which points to the Dome of the Rock, the gilded-domed shrine that the subject headings also call Qubbat al-Sakhrah. Early European travelers often used "Mosque of Omar" for the building, a name that stuck in Western usage even though the shrine was completed in the late seventh century, long after the caliph Umar's time. This color lithograph was made after drawings David Roberts sketched on his travels in the Near East in the late 1830s and was printed by Louis Haghe for the London publisher F.G. Moon. It appeared in *The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia*, a set that brought the region's monuments to a wide middle-class audience.
| 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 & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842, v. 1, pts. 1-2, p. 8. Tooley, no. 7 |
| Subjects | Qubbat al-Sakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)--1830-1840. Mosques--Jerusalem--1830-1840. Prayer--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,451 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216110 |
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