Jerusalem and the Holy Land Rediscovered: The Prints of David Roberts (1796-1864)

by David Roberts and Eric M. Meyers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938989154
• ISBN13: 9780938989158
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 6.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 13.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Jerusalem and the Holy Land - Book of Prints

We received this book/shipment as scheduled/promised and in very good shape. We saw copies of some of the prints in the Nasher Art Museum at Duke University and wanted to see them all for ourselves. The book is quite comprehensive, with essays and reviews by scholars. The prints represent scenes around the Holy Land and surrounding areas from an early 19th Century perspective and, of course, contrast very drastically from today's Israel, which my wife and I saw on tour in 2008.

A gorgeous book, by a great artist

This book reproduces the original travel book created by David Roberts in the early 1800s. Though not as large as the original book, the reproductions are quite large and beautifully done. David Robert's lithographs are magical.

A true vision of the holy land.

Roberts portrayal of the holy land as it appeared thousands of years ago brings to life what once could only be described by the words of the bible. A visit to the mid-east would not be complete without first studying Robert's book. One's perspective as they visit the holy land would then blend today's rituals with that of the past.