Ravine at Petra
SKU: 5345Title:
Ravine at Petra
Date of publication:
1842-45
Printed Measurement:
51 x 33.5 cm
Publisher(s):
Artist(s):
David Roberts
Colour:
original
Engraver(s):
Louis Haghe
London: Day & Son for FG Moon, 1842-45. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after Roberts, 51 x 33.5 cm, light marginal waterstaining. From the first edition of ‘The Holy Land’ which, with ‘Egypt and Nubia’, form “one of the most important and elaborate ventures in nineteenth-century publishing, and ... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph” (Abbey). Part of the lower Siq, the ravine leading into the ancient Nabataean settlement of Petra. Abbey, Travel, 385.