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Lot 94
  • 94

# - Jerusalem--Roberts, David.

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, under the command of Titus, A.D. 70. [London: L. Brall & Sons, late 19th century?], large coloured print after a painting by David Roberts, image size 690 x 1070mm., quotation from Lamentations 2:13 in English and Hebrew below, framed and glazed

Catalogue Note

A slightly reduced later version of the striking classical view of Jerusalem that was perhaps one of the most ambitious of all Robert's individual prints.