Description of Banvard's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land : painted from authentic drawings made upon the spot during an extensive journey, undertaken expressly for the work, in four immense volumes : presenting in minute detail the sacred localities, the cities, mountainxs, plains and rivers, celebrated in scriptural history : now exhibiting at the Georama, 596 Broadway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banvard, John, 1815-1891, author, illustrator.

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panoramas--Jerusalem.

Panoramas.

Panoramas--Palestine.

Jerusalem--In art.

Jerusalem.

Palestine--In art.

Palestine.

Jerusalem--Description and travel.

Palestine--Description and travel.

Banvard, John, 1815-1891--Portraits.

Banvard, John.

Banvard, John, 1815-1891--Travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages, 4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait.

Other Title:

Description of Banvard's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land

Notes:

Frontispiece portrait of Banvard "engraved by Howland, N.Y." Other illustrations engraved by Joseph Williams and J. Cooper. Banvard's map of Jerusalem engraved by A. Maverick.

"Mr. Banvard would take it as a great personal favor should any of the audience see a person taking sketches from the painting, to inform one of the ushers, as his painting of the Mississippi was basely pirated when on exhibition in New York, in 1847"--title page verso.

Text printed in two columns.

"The fall of the Amorites."--p. 21, in verse.

"Critiques from the London press, on Mr. Banvard's appearance in the great Metropolis."--p. 24.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

1162162743