Tag: Topography

This scene represents the arrival of the caravan of the Artist and his companions, in the country, and at the tents of the Aulad-Sa’id.

The convent of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt.

This Convent has been built in the form of a square fortress of hewn granite, and flanked with towers, of which one or two have cannon.

Plan and sections of the Tomb of the Prophets; View, plan and section of the Tomb of Lazarus at Bethany.

The Palace of Blois affords an example of successive changes in the buildings, from the original castle to the period of the Renaissance.

The ruins of the Church of Saint John the Baptist in the ancient city of Samaria, not far from the modern city of Nablus.

View of one of the oldest and most interesting Canaanite cities in Palestine. Nablous contains some fine fragments of its former grandeur.

The Shechem of the Old Testament, and Sychar of the New, once the capital of Samaria, was a city of very high antiquity, and eminent renown.

Jacob’s Well (the Well of the Samaritan Woman) is a well in Samaria at the foot of Mount Garizim near biblical Shechem (now Nablus).

King Charles II escaped, and now entered upon a scene of adventures the most romantic that can be imagined.

Nothing can be more charming than a morning walk in the immediate neighborhood of Galle. Sketches of Ceylon.