Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre by David Roberts - Jerusalem, Israel - Paintings Then and Now on Waymarking.com

The lithograph shows Entrance to the Holy Sepulcher from the entrance court (piazza), ie from the south. It shows the state of this part of the temple in 1842, at a time when the then Palestine was in the power of the Ottoman Empire.

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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia was a travelogue of 19th-century Palestine and the magnum opus of Scottish painter David Roberts. It contained 250 lithographs by Louis Haghe of Roberts's watercolor sketches. It was first published by subscription between 1842 and 1849, in two separate publications: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea and Arabia and Egypt and Nubia. William Brockedon and George Croly wrote much of the text, Croly writing the historical, and Brockedon the descriptive portions.

Described as "one of the art-publishing sensations of the mid-Victorian period", it exceeded all other earlier lithographic projects in scale, and was one of the most expensive publications of the nineteenth century. Haghe has been described by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as "the best and most prolific lithographer of the time".

David Roberts RA RBA (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–40). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a Belgian lithographer and watercolourist.

Website of painting. Exact URL of painting is required: [Web Link] Artist: David Roberts Date of Painting: 01/01/1842 Date of Your Photograph: 01/01/2019 Medium of Painting: color lithograph by watercolor

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