Original hand-colored steel engraving, titled at the foot Wüste von Jericho, with the plain of the Jordan seen from the desert hills: at the right, a caravan with pack animals and tents pitched beside the road; beyond, the haze of the valley and the mountains of Moab.
Original hand-colored steel engraving, titled at the foot Wüste von Jericho, with the plain of the Jordan seen from the desert hills: at the right, a caravan with pack animals and tents pitched beside the road; beyond, the haze of the valley and the mountains of Moab.
It belongs to the Munich series of views of the Holy Land published by the Vogel'sche Verlagshandlung, engraved on steel by Poppel and Kurz after sketches by U. Halbreiter and hand-colored.
Medium: Steel engraving, hand-colored.
Date: 1861.
Source: Series of views of the Holy Land, Vogel'sche Verlagshandlung, Munich.
Dimensions: Image 7.7 x 4.9 in (19.5 x 12.5 cm); sheet 10.8 x 8.1 in (27.5 x 20.5 cm).
Condition: Good. Fresh coloring; paper with light toning and a damp speck in the left margin, outside the image.