Hand Colored Engraving by J.m.w. Turner: View of Solomon's Pools

Travelers rest on a barren plain beside a shining pool and a dark horizon.

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. Low and wide, the scene holds a bright rectangular pool in the middle distance under stormy cloud. Groups of figures in red, blue and white sit and stand in the foreground. A small caption in capitals closes the page. It is 9.3 inches wide and 6.3 high.

Picnic weather, for anyone fond of brooding clouds.