Plate 49 Jericho RSE - After David Roberts
A night scene from the fields of Jericho which David Roberts observed on 3 April 1839 with the Red Sea in the distance. The drawings and watercolours from this tour of the Holy Land and Egypt were collated together into folios and released over a seven year period by the publisher F.G. Moon from 20 Threadneedle Street London. This lithograph is from the Royal Subscription Edition (1842-1849) with only 500 copies produced per depiction.
Medium: Original Royal Subscription Edition, full-plate hand-coloured lithograph on thick woven paper.
Inscribed on lithograph lower right 'Jericho april 3rd 1839', 32 x 48 cm, framed (note small crack in glass lower right, can be sent without).