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Auction 9 · Lot 124

Greek Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Handcolored lithograph, full-plate, by Roberts and Louis Haghe from Robert’s The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Egypt & Nubia (London,1842-46).

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ROBERTS, DAVID.

Place

1842.

Description

Hand coloring fresh and well preserved. Mounted on card and matted

summary

This plates are from the Subscriber’s copy, a deluxe version of Robert’s popular portfolio. These subscriber’s lithographs are fine examples of what has been described as “one of the most important and elaborate ventures of Nineteenth-Century publishing and... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph.” Abbey, Travel 385; Tooley 401
330x490 mm.
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