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David Roberts RA

Bethlehem

1796 - 1864

First Edition lithographs
Full plate: 85
Presented in a acid free mount

Modern hand-coloured lithograph for the first edition of David Roberts' The Holy Land.
Published by F.G. Moon & Son, London 1842-49.

Roberts reached Bethlehem on the 5th of April following a short ride from the Convent of Saint Saba (see the previous lot). He described the approach in his journal, writing that: ‘cultivation began to appear… [the] immediate neighbourhood abounds with fields of corn, olive and fig-trees. The Church of the Nativity crowns the height on which the town is situated and attached to it are the Latin, Greek and Armenian Convents.’

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