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Title: The Convent of St Catherine, Mount Sinai - looking towards the Plain of the Encampment. Feby 21st 1839 Original hand colored lithograph. Artist: Roberts, David Published: London, F.G. Moon. Date: 1842-45. Large landscape. Size: [34,4 x 49,4 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: Condition: Reference: Roberts 116 Price: /
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