Hand Colored Engraving by Fitzmaurice: The Plain of Jezereel or Esdra

Surely a lone palm leans over a plain with a domed tomb and distant peaks

This hand colored engraving is from Israel, and is dated 1835. It is ink on paper. Orientalism, a genre of art about the East, is generally traced to Napoleon's 1798 invasion of Egypt, which encouraged scholars and artists to visit and document North Africa and the Middle East. Touched with color, a landscape with a tall palm at left, a white domed building on a rise, and soft mountains across a wide plain. Two small figures rest in the foreground. It is 9.1 inches wide, 6 deep and 5.9 high.

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