Hand Colored Engraving by Fitzmaurice: View of the Port of Jaffa, Israel

Clearly a single red-sailed boat idles before a pale city by the water

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1834. 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. Washed with color, a harbor view of a white, huddled town along a flat shore, green hills behind, and a lone boat with a rust-red sail in the foreground. Pale sky. It is 9.3 inches wide and 6.3 high.

One boat, one town, and a great deal of calm water.