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List of illustrations

  • Jerusalem the Golden
  • Belshazzar's Feast
  • The Promised Land–The Grayson Family
  • The Course of Empire: Destruction
  • The Course of Empire: Desolation
  • Jesus in the Upper Room
  • Madonna and Child Visiting the Family of John the Baptist
  • E. Wilson Seated atop the Great Pyramid, with American Flag Jacket
  • Patriotic Pageant, American Colony, Jerusalem
  • George Jones Adams
  • Bayard Taylor
  • William Cowper Prime (1825-1905)
  • The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
  • The Departure of the Israelites
  • Belshazzar's Feast
  • The Destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70
  • Frederick Catherwood broadside, detail
  • Catherwood panorama key
  • The Machinery for Banvard's Moving Panorama
  • John Banvard broadside, detail
  • Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
  • Key to Banvard's Historical Landscape
  • Mount Olivet
  • Map of Modern Jerusalem
  • Mt. Tabor
  • Inn of the Good Samaritan
  • The Arch of the Ecce Homo, Jerusalem
  • The Lower Pool of Solomon
  • The Spot Where Christ Prayed–Garden of Gethsemane
  • Flocks near the Pit into which Joseph was Thrown by His Brethren
  • The Tower of Jezreel
  • Ancient Bronze Doors, Tiberias
  • A Woman of Samaria
  • Dervish Beggars
  • Palestine Park
  • Palestine Park
  • Chautauqua Men in Middle Eastern Dress
  • Oriental Group in Palestine Park
  • Walls of Jerusalem and the Ferris Wheel Looking from West Restaurant Pavilion
  • Self-Portrait
  • Nile, 3rd and 4th Views
  • View of Theban Mountains
  • Sphynx with Pyramids of Ghizeh
  • Jerusalem
  • Sketch of the Artist Camped outside Jerusalem
  • Map of Mount Sinai and surrounding area
  • Mount Sinai and the Valley of Es-Seba'iyeh
  • Moses on the Mount
  • St. John–Descent of the New Jerusalem
  • The Sphinx
  • The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah
  • The Dead Sea
  • The Mussulman's Call to Prayer
  • Sunset
  • Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
  • Syria by the Sea
  • El Khasné, Petra
  • John Bascombe
  • Bazaar in Damascus
  • The Sea of Tiberias
  • River Jordan–Bethabara
  • Syrian Ploughman
  • The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome
  • Self-Portrait in a Carriage
  • Tilling the Soil in Palestine
  • Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearny, Nebraska
  • The Scapegoat
  • Promotional photograph of James Fairman
  • Alpine Landscape with River
  • Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
  • View of Jerusalem
  • View of Jerusalem
  • Jerusalem
  • Jaffa
  • Figures in a Middle Eastern Landscape
  • Frederic Church’s painting "The Heart of the Andes" as displayed in the fine art gallery at the Metropolitan Fair in New York
  • The Mussulman's Call to Prayer, detail
  • Moses Viewing the Promised Land
  • Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636
  • West Rock, New Haven
  • Cotopaxi
  • Ruins at Baalbek
  • Anti-Lebanon
  • Jerusalem, View from the Valley of Jehoshaphat
  • Classical Ruins, Syria
  • Present State of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzouli
  • View from the Mountains toward Damascus, Syria
  • Damascus
  • Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, detail
  • Jerusalem
  • Mountains of Edom
  • Two Bedouin
  • Tropical Moonlight
  • Sunrise in Syria
  • Ruins of the Synagogue at Capernaum
  • A Composition
  • Moonrise in Greece
  • The Spirit of Peace
  • The Aegean Sea
  • Syria–Ruins by the Sea
  • Court Hall and Stair Hall, Olana
  • The Good Shepherd
  • Jaffa Gate, David's Tower
  • Coast Scene
  • The Plains of Esdraelon
  • Near the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
  • Palestine
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~~It is both a pleasant and a frustrating task to put together the list of names and institutions that conventionally begins a book of this sort. Nothing could be more pleasurable than to offer public thanks to those friends who have, over many years, provided the support, encouragement, and intellectual engagement that enabled me to...
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~In a public appeal to the most famous landscape painter of his day, Nathaniel Parker Willis, one of the first American literary figures to travel extensively in the Middle East, gave early voice to the cultural phenomenon that is the subject of this book. “Pray Mr....
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This short imperative, declaimed by John Danforth in the Massachusetts Assembly chamber at the beginning of the eighteenth century, contains within its succinct formulation the sentiments constituting the foundation of the nineteenth-century American fascination with the Holy Land. “Israel,” understood as...
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~The visual culture surrounding the Holy Land is inextricably linked to the artists who produced it, the forces that prompted their efforts, and the reception and use of the images by their audience. A few key concepts, surfacing again and again in the contemporary rhetoric, seem to link these components. Nearly every nineteenth-century attempt to...
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~Long before any American artist had the means of travel to the Holy Land, there existed a tradition of vernacular visual representations of its landscape. The popular fascination with Bible lands encouraged a striking succession of entrepreneurial schemes seeking to bring images of the sacred terrain before the eyes of the public. Sparked initially by the widespread...
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~The amount of American vernacular visual imagery surrounding the Holy Land burgeoned in the second half of the nineteenth century. The relatively new medium of photography, whether experienced through actual photographs, engravings after photographs, or photomechanical reproductions, was soon pressed into service by those who advocated what might be termed universal...
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~~When Miner Kilbourne Kellogg arrived in the United States on a summer day shortly after the close of the Civil War, the little-known painter was bringing two decades of sometimes difficult expatriation to an end with a final, hopeful return to his native land. Kellogg had first gone abroad in 1841, returning six years later...
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~In its broad outlines, the career of Edward Troye would appear to have little to do with nineteenth-century American visual culture surrounding the Holy Land. Born into a Swiss family of artists, taken to London as a boy, and trained there as an animal...
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~Had the tour of Edward Troye’s Holy Land paintings been unsuccessful, it would probably not have affected his career adversely, for at the time he could have fallen back on his booming business in portraits of Thoroughbred horses. The artist James Fairman had no such safety net. A figure who resists categorization and easy placement into the standard...
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~While Frederic Edwin Church was by no means the first American artist to travel to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, he was certainly the best known. In contrast to Kellogg, Troye, and Fairman, Church left for the Fertile Crescent with an established reputation (in both...
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~Painters of the Holy Land, it would appear, had a clearly limited shelf life, particularly in the late nineteenth century. It is striking how many of the artists discussed here—Miner Kellogg, Frederic Church, James Fairman, even the panoramist John Banvard—seemed to have outlived their era in later life, their work unappreciated, the values of their...
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The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture
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