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1925 RUINS OF JERICHO West Bank Landscape Photogravure Palestine Print

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•Title: The Ruins Of Jericho. (plate #139) (Title in 5 languages; English, French, Italian, Spanish, German)
•Year: 1925
•Print size (inches):
9.2 x 12
•Image size (inches): 5.7 x 8.4
•Print size (cm): 23.5 x 30.6
•Image size (cm): 14.4 x 21.4

•Provenance: 
Picturesque Palestine Arabia And Syria
•Verso:  Photogravure
•Publisher:
  Brentano's Publishers: New York



Description
     

This high quality 90 year old 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! Free USA shipping.

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.


Jericho
is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate. In 2007, it had a population of 18,346. The city was occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, and has been held under Israeli occupation since 1967; administrative control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in 1994. It is believed to be one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years (9000 BCE), almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of the Earth's history.

Copious springs in and around the city have attracted human habitation for thousands of years and Jericho is described in the Hebrew Bible as the "City of Palm Trees".


 

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