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Currently, we have no maps of the Middle East available. However, we do have some fifty views, the majority taken from two sources: Thomas Allom’s
illustrations for Robert Walsh’s Constantinople and the Scenery of the
Seven Churches of Asia Minor (including the view of Constantinople from the
Golden Horn shown below), and William Henry Bartlett’s from The Beauties
of the Bosphorus and Carneís Syria, The Holy Land, and Asia Minor, both dating from the early 1840s. (N.B., many if not all of these were re-published
elsewhere for up to twenty years afterwards, for example in Fisher’s Drawing
Room Scrap Book and the Art Journal, as well as in Bibles). In addition, we have a few examples of the Scottish artist David Roberts’ beautiful and
justly-famous lithographs from The Holy Land: Yesterday and Today, and
some real rarities—reproductions of some of the lovely and unusual colour
lithographs by Elizabeth Ann Finn (1825-1921), wife of James Finn, the British
consul at Jerusalem from 1849–1858. We assume these originally came from
her Sunrise Over Jerusalem with other Pen and Pencil Sketches, or illustrated
A View from Jerusalem, the memoir she and her husband wrote of their
time in Palestine.
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Unless otherwise stated, all views are reproduced on heavyweight
A4 paper, with an approximate image size between 7"x5" and 8"x6"
(175mm x 125mm-200mm x 150mm).
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