Synopsis
Jerusalem and the Holy Land Rediscovered is comprised of 123 tinted and watercolored lithographs produced by the British artist, David Roberts, one of the first artists to travel extensively throughout the Holy Land in 1839.
Traveling from Egypt across the Suez to Mount Sinai, Petra, and Jerusalem, Roberts produced a large corpus of drawings and watercolors of all the major holy sites. These works formed the basis of the tinted lithographs published soon after his return to England, a collection which enjoyed immense popularity in England and the United States and provided the public the first glimpse of the biblical landscape and monuments known only by name.
This book reproduces for the first time in full color all 123 of Roberts’s lithographs along with the unabridged text by the Reverend George Croly, L.L.D. that accompanied the prints when they first appeared in 1842. Reproduced from one of the best preserved sets in the world, this rare edition has been in a private collection in Maryland since the 1850s and was recently acquired by the Duke University Museum of Art.
Traveling from Egypt across the Suez to Mount Sinai, Petra, and Jerusalem, Roberts produced a large corpus of drawings and watercolors of all the major holy sites. These works formed the basis of the tinted lithographs published soon after his return to England, a collection which enjoyed immense popularity in England and the United States and provided the public the first glimpse of the biblical landscape and monuments known only by name.
This book reproduces for the first time in full color all 123 of Roberts’s lithographs along with the unabridged text by the Reverend George Croly, L.L.D. that accompanied the prints when they first appeared in 1842. Reproduced from one of the best preserved sets in the world, this rare edition has been in a private collection in Maryland since the 1850s and was recently acquired by the Duke University Museum of Art.
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About the Author
W. D. Davies is G. W. Ivey Professor Emeritus at the Divinity School, Duke University.
Eric M. Meyers is a professor with the Department of Religion, Duke University.
Sarah Walker Schroth is a curator at the Duke University Museum of Art.
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JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY LAND REDISCOVERED. The Prints of David Roberts (1796-1864)
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Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, 1997
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This work contains images of artist David Roberts' work done while he was on a journey to the Middle East in 1838. This exhibition is part of the Israel/North Carolina Cultural Exchange initiated under the leadership of North Carolina governor James B. Hunt, Jr. The book contains photographs, illustrations, and notes. This copy is clean and solid. Seller Inventory # 023489
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Jerusalem and the Holy Land Rediscovered: The Prints of David Roberts (1796-1864) (Writings from an Unbound Europe (Hardcover))
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Jerusalem and the Holy Land Rediscovered: The Prints of David Roberts (1796-1864) (Writings from an Unbound Europe (Hardcover))
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Jerusalem and the Holy Land Rediscovered: The Prints of David Roberts (1796-1864)
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