The Holy Land: Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
The Holy Land is a travel book of lithographs made by the Scottish painter David Roberts, with text by George Croly, published in London in 1842 for European readers interested in the Near East. The pictures are tinted lithographs of Levantine and Egyptian towns, ruins and street scenes, drawn with soft graphite-like shading and pale washes. A designer could take their atmospheric haze, layered stone walls and small figures in the foreground to set scale and mood in landscape or historical compositions.
