Back الأرض المقدسة وسوريا وإدوميا والعربية ومصر والنوبة Arabic Tierra Santa, Siria, Idumea, Arabia, Egipto y Nubia Spanish Kutsal Topraklar, Suriye, İdumea, Arabistan, Mısır ve Nubia Turkish
 Volume 1, plate 4: "Greek Church of the Holy Sepulchre" | |
| Author | David Roberts |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | David Roberts and Louis Haghe |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Travel literature |
Publication date | 1842–1849 |
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia is a travelogue of 19th-century Palestine and the magnum opus of Scottish painter David Roberts. It contains 250 lithographs by Louis Haghe of Roberts's watercolor sketches. It was first published by subscription between 1842 and 1849, in two separate publications: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea and Arabia and Egypt and Nubia.[1][2] William Brockedon and George Croly wrote much of the text, Croly writing the historical, and Brockedon the descriptive portions.
Described as "one of the art-publishing sensations of the mid-Victorian period",[1][3] it exceeded all other earlier lithographic projects in scale,[2] and was one of the most expensive publications of the nineteenth century.[1] Haghe has been described by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as "the best and most prolific lithographer of the time".[4]
According to Professor Annabel Wharton, it has "proved to be the most pervasive and enduring of the nineteenth-century renderings of the East circulated in the West."[2]
- ^ a b c Wheatley-Irving 2007, p. 80-81.
- ^ a b c Wharton 2006, p. 161.
- ^ McKitterick, David (5 March 2009). The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 6, 1830–1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 200–. ISBN 978-1-316-17588-0.
- ^ Met Museum, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia
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