Subject: Holy Land
Period: 1750 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
21 x 17.8 inches
53.3 x 45.2 cm
This beautifully engraved map divides the Holy Land into the twelve tribes. It covers the coastline from Biblus nunc Gibele to the Sirbonis lacus. A map showing the region in Roman times is inset in a decorative scroll at left, and the title cartouche is topped with two sides of a shekel coin. Below the cartouche is a scene of the encampment of the Jews with two spies of Moses bearing the fruit from the Promised Land. The map was drawn by Johann Christoph Harenberg. French title in top margin, "Carte de la Terre Sainte Divisee Selon les Douze Tribus d'Israel…"
References: Laor #325.
Condition: A
A nice impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with a fleur-de-lis watermark, light soiling in the border at right, and an archivally repaired centerfold separation that enters less than 1/2" into image at bottom. Remnants of hinge tape on verso.