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The Holy Land
Mount Horeb in the Arabian Desert, Antique Biblical Landscape View, circa 1850
Anno Domini MDCCCLcirca 1850
$265
€235 · £200
Original print, not a reproduction
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, flat or rolled, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- circa 1850
- Technique
- Steel Engraving
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Marked handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. Scattered light foxing in the margin. Corners and edges are not shown by this scan. Clean, even paper tone in the margin. Several larger brown marks.
- Faith
- Christianity, Judaism
- Collection
- The Holy Land
- Era
- 1850 and after, Chromolithographs and devotional prints
- Stock no.
- BG-11671-87
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
A view of Mount Horeb in the desert of Sinai, an original antique steel engraving, uncolored, circa 1850. The caption below the image reads DER HOREB in der ARABISCHEN WÜSTE, that is, Horeb in the Arabian Desert.
A broad mountain rises at the center of the plate, its stepped rock faces lit by shafts of sunlight breaking through the clouds, with a small building set on its summit. A great mass of layered rock closes the view at the left, and lower ridges fall away at the right. Across the open valley floor in the foreground moves a caravan of camels with riders and men on foot carrying long poles, very small against the scale of the mountain.
The engraver's credit below the image at lower right reads L. Daut sc. Nbg. (L. Daut engraved it, Nuremberg). The imprint at lower left reads Aus d. Kunstanst. d. Bibliogr Instit. in Hildbh. (from the art works of the Bibliographisches Institut in Hildburghausen), and at lower right Eigenthum d. Verleger (property of the publishers).
The Hildburghausen imprint is that of Meyer's Universum, a serial collection of engraved views with descriptive text published by Joseph Meyer's Bibliographisches Institut at Hildburghausen from 1833, its plates engraved on steel. The sheet comes from a dealer's album rather than from a bound set. Horeb is the name the Bible uses in several books for the mountain of God where Moses received the Law, elsewhere called Sinai.
Marked handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. Scattered light foxing in the margin. Corners and edges are not shown by this scan. Clean, even paper tone in the margin. Several larger brown marks.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
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