Description
A framed original antique hand coloured print from 1839. Also housed in antique frame.
Approx 60 x 40cm (plate)
Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, 1839 [constructed between 530 and 545 CE by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I].
A sensation for wealthy scholarly collectors in the mid-19th century.
John Roland Abbey described this as “the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph”.
The artist has also been described by the MET as “the best lithographer of the time”.
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