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Title: Fortress of Akabah. Arabia Petrae. Feby 28th 1839 Original hand colored lithograph. Artist: Roberts, David Published: London, F.G. Moon. Date: 1842-45.Small landscape. Size: [24 x 34 cm] Technic: Description: Published in "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia". Subscriber's copy, the lithographed plates finely coloured by hand and mounted on card (full sheet ca. 44 x 62 cm). The best issue- "Robert's Holy Land was one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, Travel). Notes: Slight foxing in the sky. Condition: Reference: Roberts 107 Price: /
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