Hand Colored Engraving by Fitzmaurice: View of the Town of Shechem

Storm clouds mass over a dark mountain above a small pale town in the valley

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and dates to the 19th century. 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 landscape of a cloudy, almost black sky, a broad shadowed ridge, and a low town of pale buildings on the valley floor, with a gnarled tree in the foreground. It is 9.3 inches wide and 6.3 high.

The town sits tight and lets the weather finish.