The figures introduced were all drawn on the spot, and convey an accurate representation of the female costume of Nazareth.
Tag: Holy Land
Holy Land is a term for the region referred to in the Hebrew Bible as Canaan, Eretz Israel or the Promised Land. Since the Roman Empire, the region has been called Palestine.
Orders of monks and nuns. Historical religious habit of the Orient.
These oriental monastic and nun’s habit date back to the earliest times of Christianity.
Jerusalem. Plan of the Church of the Resurrection and the Holy Sepulchre.
Plan of the Church of the Resurrection and the Holy Sepulchre. Interior views of the Great Dome, Calvary, Greek Chapel, Chapel of S. Helena.
The Holy Land. Hebron one of the oldest cities in the world.
Hebron is one of the most memorable sites of Palestine, as the abiding place of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The Nilometer on the Isle of Rhoda, Cairo, rebuilt in 861.
The Nilometer of Roda is considered the most important Nilometer from Islamic times, it was rebuilt by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil.
Syria. The clothing of woman and man.
Museum Extension Project.
The David street. Jerusalem. City of the Great King.
This particular thoroughfare is the David street in its normal condition today. It is the principal street of the city Jerusalem.
The town and lake of Tiberias from the north.
The view is taken from a point immediately above the north-west corner of Tiberias.
View of Jaffa, looking north, 1843 by David Roberts.
Besides its authentic history, Jaffa figures in a strange mixture of Hebrew and Heathen tradition.
Besharah, of the Beni Said tribe. The dress of the Arab tribes.
The dress of the Arab tribes on the route to Petra.
Besharah, of the Beni Said tribe, a member of the artists’ travelling party in Egypt, Sinai and Akabah.