Hand Colored Engraving by J.m.w. Turner: View of Ancient Jaffa in Israel

Evidently a hilltop town slopes down toward a sea with a pale, cloudy sky

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. Colored by hand, a view of a white town on a ridge above green terraced slopes, with a thin stretch of sea behind and small figures on the path at lower left. It is 9.3 inches wide and 6.3 high.

The town takes in the view and does not mind being looked at.