Rare album with 30 photochrome plates featuring scenes in and near Jerusalem around the end of the 19th century. Ca. 1890-1910. Small oblong folio, 23 x 30 cm.
Beautifully coloured and pristine, showing even fine details and shadows. Descriptions on images in three languages (English, German, French). Undated and with no indication of printing location or publisher, the latter most likely being Boulos Meo in Jerusalem, although N. De Simini from the same city is an option too. The images appear to depict Jerusalem and surroundings under Ottoman control and must have been made after the invention of the photochrome process in the 1880s, so they are most likely from around 1890-1910. – Boards rubbed and slightly scratched, particularly in the corners.
List of plates:
1) Jaffa
2) Jerusalem
3) First view of Jerusalem
4) New entrance to city
5) Tower of David
6) Church of the Holy Sepulchre
7) Holy Sepulchre
8) Ecce Homo Arch
9) General view of Temple area
10) The Rock
11) The Axa Mosque
12) Jews’ Wailing Place
13) Damascus Gate
14) Tombs of the Kings
15) Golden Gate
16) Mount of Olives
17) Garden of Gethsemane
18) Jerusalem from the North
19) Valley of Jehosophath
20) Rachel’s Tomb
21) Bethlehem
22) Church of the Nativity
23) Grotto of the Nativity
24) Bethany
25) Brook Cherith
26) Jericho
27) The Dead Sea
28) The Jordan
29) Nazareth
30) Tiberias