Group of horseriders on a plateau overlooking a landscape with the city of Sebaste, formely Samaria. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.

[London (20 Threadneedle Street)] : [F.G. Moon], [1842]

1 print : lithograph with tint plate, with watercolour and gum arabic.

Sabaste, ancient Samaria. April 17th 1839 ; David Roberts R.A.

David Roberts travelled in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Egypt, from 1838 to 1839. During his journey, Roberts produced a great number of sketches. He developed these into watercolours, which were the basis for the series of 247 lithographs called The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, published between 1842 and 1849

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 385.I.44

The Holy Land, London 1990, IV-24-25

Wellcome Collection 35357i

The entire series of 247 lithographs was divided into six volumes, which were also available as two separate publications of three volumes each. The three volumes of Middle Eastern subjects are called The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, often referred to as "The Holy Land". The remaining three volumes are called Egypt & Nubia