Panorama of Jerusalem, seen from the Mount of Olives.

8/4/20
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Panorama of Jerusalem, seen from the Mount of Olives.

PLATE I.

PANORAMA OF JERUSALEM, SEEN FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.

REFERENCES.

  1. Hill of Evil Counsel.
  2. Aqueduct of Solomon.
  3. Mount of Rephaim.
  4. Cave of S. Peter’s Repentance.
  5. Mount Sion.
  6. Tomb of David.
  7. Scene of the Last Supper.
  8. Haram es-Sherif
  9. Court of the Mosque Kubbet es-Sakha-rah.
  10. Mosque el-Aksa.
  11. Kubbet es-Sakharab.
  12. Jewish Hospital.
  13. Armenian Convent.
  14. Church of S. James.
  15. English Church.
  16. Castle of David.
  17. Greek Convent of S. John the Baptist.
  18. Minaret of Ibrahim’s Mosque.
  19. The Western Mountains.
  20. Tower of the Church of the Resurrection.
  21. Church of the Resurrection.
  22. Hospice of Saladin.
  23. Greek Convent of S. Basil.
  24. Latin Convent of S. Saviour.
  25. Minaret of the Serai.
  26. Tekhie el-Kasyeki Sultane.
  27. Residence of the Governor of Jerusalem
  28. Barrack of the Haram es-Sherif.
  29. A building belonging to the Daughters of Sion.
  30. Minaret. The ancient Palace of Herod.
  31. Church of S. Ann.
  32. Mount Gihon.
  33. Convent of the Dancing Dervishes.
  34. Herod’s Gate.
  35. Ancient Church of S. Mary Magdalene.
  36. Bastion of Godfrey of Bouillon.
  37. Kerm es-Sheikh.
  38. S. Mary’s Gate.
  39. Saracenic Ruin.
  40. Golden Gate.
  41. Cemetery.
  42. Way of the Capture.
  43. Valley of the Kidron.
  44. Place where S. Stephen was stoned (?).
  45. Gethsemane.
  46. Arab Tower.
  47. Tomb of Absalom.
  48. Mount of Offence.
  49. Tomb of the Virgin Mary.
  50. Mount of Olives.

Source: Jerusalem Explored. Being a description of the ancient and modern city, with numerous illustrations consisting of views, ground plans, and sections by Ermete Pierotti; translated by Thomas George Bonney (Fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge). London: Bell and Daldy; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co. 1864.

David Roberts, holy, land, levante, palestine,

Continuing

The ancient Jerusalem. Geographical and historical. The Holy Land.
The Holy Land. Jerusalem from the road leading to Bethany.
View of the Damascus Gate, leading into Jerusalem.
The Upper Fountain of Siloam. Valley of Jehosophat.
Lower Pool of Siloam, Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Bethlehem. Historical views and description of its sites.
The Tomb of St. James in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
The Holy Land. Hebron one of the oldest cities in the world.
The Greek Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
Convent of Mar Saba. The Holy Laura of Saint Sabbas. Palestine.
The largest of the cedars of Lebanon. Mount Lebanon.
General view of Beirut with a wide view over the sea and Mount Lebanon.
Jaffa, ancient Joppa, as the chief harbour of Judaea.
Hebron. The Cave of Machpelah. Oriental and Sacred Scences.
The Rock temple of El Deir at Petra. The Holy Land by David Roberts.
The Nilometer on the Isle of Rhoda, Cairo, rebuilt in 861.
The ancient ruins of the Villa of Maecenas in Tivoli, Italy.
Al-Andalus. Interior of the Mosque at Córdoba, Spain.
Aswan the ancient Syene and the island of Elephantine.
Alexandria the metropolis of Egypt. The Holy Land, Asia Minor illustrated.
The cemetery of Jaffa, the ancient Joppa, Israel 1836.
The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, called the Bed of Pharaoh.
Front Elevation of the Great Rock Temple of Abu Simbel, Nubia.
Oriental street in the Egyptian capital Cairo with the Al Azhar Mosque.
Yerebatan Serail – The Subterranean Palace. Basilica Cistern, Istanbul.
The Pyramids of Giza. The Great Pyramid of Cheops.
View of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, from the Propyleae.
Sorrento, a coastal town in southwest Italy on the Bay of Naples.
The Approach to the Island of Philae, Egypt, from the North.

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