Details
•Title: Mount Sinai. Monastery of St. Catherine. (plate #297, title in 5 languages; English, French, Italian, Spanish, German)
•Year: 1925
•Print size (inches): 9.2 x 12
•Image size (inches): 6.2 x 8.4
•Print size (cm): 23.5 x 30.6
•Image size (cm): 15.8 x 21.5
•Provenance: Picturesque Palestine Arabia And Syria
•Verso: Photogravure print
•Publisher: Brentano's Publishers: New York
Description
This high quality 90 year old sepia photogravure plate comes from a collection of fine art photography by Karl Grober and others, published by Brentano's Publishing in 1925. Please note that there is a gravure on the reverse as well. Very good condition, ready for framing!
A photogravure, or "gravure", is a photographic image produced from a copper engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the high costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph.
Saint Catherine's Monastery commonly known as Santa Katarina, its official name being Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai, lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Greek Orthodox (part of the wider Eastern Orthodox Church) and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world. The site contains the world's oldest continually operating library, posessing many unique books including the Syriac Sinaiticus and, until 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus. A small town with hotels and swimming pools, called Saint Katherine City, has grown around the monastery.
IC07 110
•Title: Mount Sinai. Monastery of St. Catherine. (plate #297, title in 5 languages; English, French, Italian, Spanish, German)
•Year: 1925
•Print size (inches): 9.2 x 12
•Image size (inches): 6.2 x 8.4
•Print size (cm): 23.5 x 30.6
•Image size (cm): 15.8 x 21.5
•Provenance: Picturesque Palestine Arabia And Syria
•Verso: Photogravure print
•Publisher: Brentano's Publishers: New York
Description
This high quality 90 year old sepia photogravure plate comes from a collection of fine art photography by Karl Grober and others, published by Brentano's Publishing in 1925. Please note that there is a gravure on the reverse as well. Very good condition, ready for framing!
A photogravure, or "gravure", is a photographic image produced from a copper engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the high costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph.
Saint Catherine's Monastery commonly known as Santa Katarina, its official name being Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai, lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Greek Orthodox (part of the wider Eastern Orthodox Church) and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world. The site contains the world's oldest continually operating library, posessing many unique books including the Syriac Sinaiticus and, until 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus. A small town with hotels and swimming pools, called Saint Katherine City, has grown around the monastery.
IC07 110