Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Panorama of Jerusalem – A Print and a Detailed Key – New York, 1838
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Description of a View of the City of Jerusalem and the Surrounding Country Now Exhibiting at the Panorama, Broadway […], Painted by Robert Burford from Drawings Taken in 1834 by F. Catherwood. New York, [1838]. English.
A booklet that was sold to accompany a panorama of Jerusalem exhibited in New York during the years 1838-1842, containing a schematic print of the panorama (a folded plate) on which 71 local sights and figures are marked. The booklet describes the marked sights and figures in detail.
Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), an English architect, artist and explorer, travelled around the Middle East, Europe and South America, documenting his travels in drawings and paintings; he was the first Western scholar to measure and sketch the Dome of the Rock. In 1835, Catherwood exhibited, together with Robert Burford, an English panorama painter, a panorama of Jerusalem at Leicester Square in London. In 1838 the two brought the panorama to New York, where it was exhibited in a rotunda building designed and built for this purpose on Broadway and was a great success. Additional panoramas were exhibited at the same place - Thebes in Egypt, Baalbek, Lima in Peru, the Niagara Falls and more. The panoramas, which were exhibited in a rotunda and often even rotated on their axis while described by a narrator, and which brought their viewers a promise of a reliable representation of distant sites and exotic figures, were one of the heralds of future cinema and a popular entertainment in the 19th century. The panorama of Jerusalem was one of the most popular panoramas exhibited in New York and attracted a large audience, until the rotunda with all that was in it was burnt in 1842. What remained of the panorama was only the print that appears in this booklet.
[1] folded plate (print), 12 pp, 22.5 cm. Print: 29.5X40.5 cm. Possibly missing cover. Good condition. Stains. Small tears along the edges of the leaves, including one open tear, not affecting text. Small tears along edges and fold lines of the print, reinforced with tape. The leaves are detached.
Not in NLI.
A booklet that was sold to accompany a panorama of Jerusalem exhibited in New York during the years 1838-1842, containing a schematic print of the panorama (a folded plate) on which 71 local sights and figures are marked. The booklet describes the marked sights and figures in detail.
Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), an English architect, artist and explorer, travelled around the Middle East, Europe and South America, documenting his travels in drawings and paintings; he was the first Western scholar to measure and sketch the Dome of the Rock. In 1835, Catherwood exhibited, together with Robert Burford, an English panorama painter, a panorama of Jerusalem at Leicester Square in London. In 1838 the two brought the panorama to New York, where it was exhibited in a rotunda building designed and built for this purpose on Broadway and was a great success. Additional panoramas were exhibited at the same place - Thebes in Egypt, Baalbek, Lima in Peru, the Niagara Falls and more. The panoramas, which were exhibited in a rotunda and often even rotated on their axis while described by a narrator, and which brought their viewers a promise of a reliable representation of distant sites and exotic figures, were one of the heralds of future cinema and a popular entertainment in the 19th century. The panorama of Jerusalem was one of the most popular panoramas exhibited in New York and attracted a large audience, until the rotunda with all that was in it was burnt in 1842. What remained of the panorama was only the print that appears in this booklet.
[1] folded plate (print), 12 pp, 22.5 cm. Print: 29.5X40.5 cm. Possibly missing cover. Good condition. Stains. Small tears along the edges of the leaves, including one open tear, not affecting text. Small tears along edges and fold lines of the print, reinforced with tape. The leaves are detached.
Not in NLI.
Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica
Anglo-Judaica and American Judaica