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The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture

Illustrations

Author

John Davis

PublisherPrinceton University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00149.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18477

Illustrations

Unless otherwise noted, all dimensions are in inches, and the medium is oil on canvas.)

PLATES

1. Miner Kellogg, The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah, n.d. 19-1/2 × 28-1/2. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2. Edward Troye, The Dead Sea, c. 1856. 66 × 124. Bethany College, West Virginia

3. James Fairman, The Mussulman’s Call to Prayer, 1876. 31-3/4 × 45. Private collection

4. James Fairman, Sunset, n.d. 32 × 44-1/2. Graham Company, Philadelphia

5. Frederic Church, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1870. 54-1/4 × 84-3/8. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation), F77-40.

6. Frederic Church, Syria by the Sea, 1873. 56 × 85. © Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of Mrs. James F. Joy

7. Frederic Church, El Khasné, Petra, 1874. 60-1/2 × 50-1/4. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Olana State Historic Site, Taconic Region

FIGURES

1. Thomas Hovenden, Jerusalem the Golden, n.d. 30 × 40. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Helen C. Hovenden

2. Washington Allston, Belshazzar’s Feast, 1817–43.144-1/8 × 192-1/8. © Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of the Allston Trust

3. William S. Jewett, The Promised Land—The Grayson Family, 1850. 50-7/8 × 65. Courtesy Berry-Hill Galleries, New York

4. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction, 1836. 39-1/4 × 63-1/2. Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, New York

5. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation, 1836. 39-1/2 × 61. Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, New York

6. John Landis, Jesus in the Upper Room, 1836. 13-7/8 × 19. Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Titus C. Geesey Collection

7. John Landis, Madonna and Child Visiting the Family of John the Baptist, n.d. Watercolor, 9-5/16 × 13-7/16. © 1994 The Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

8. William Herman Rau, E. Wilson Seated atop the Great Pyramid, with American Flag Jacket, 1882. Stereo photograph. Dan Kyram Collection, Jerusalem

9. Patriotic Pageant, American Colony, Jerusalem, n.d. Photograph. Private collection

10. George Jones Adams, n.d. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

11. Thomas Hicks, Bayard Taylor, 1855. 24-1/2 × 29-3/4. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

12. Fridolin Schlegel, Braheem Effendi, Portrait of William C. Prime, 1857. 36 × 29-1/8. Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, New York

13. Thomas Cole, The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds, 1833–34. 101-1/2 × 185-1/2. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., in memory of Colonel Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

14. David Roberts, The Departure of the Israelites from Egypt, 1829. 137.2 × 182.9 cm. Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

15. John Martin, Belshazzar’s Feast, 1820. 32 × 48. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund

16. Engraved key to John Whichelo, The Destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70, n.d. From Grand Exhibition of Paintings

17. Frederick Catherwood broadside (detail), c. 1838. Private Collection

18. Catherwood panorama key, 1837. From Description of a View of the City of Jerusalem

19. The Machinery for Banvard’s Moving Panorama. From Scientific American, 16 December 1848

20. John Banvard broadside (detail), 1852. Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis

21. Currier and Ives, Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 1849. Lithograph, 13.1 × 8.4. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

22. Key to Banvard’s Historical Landscape, 1863

23. William James, Mount Olivet, 1866. Stereo photograph. The Bert M. Zuckerman Collection

24. “Map of Modern Jerusalem,” 1900. From Kent, Descriptions

25. R. E. M. Bain, Mt. Tabor, 1894. From Vincent and Lee, Earthly Footsteps

26. R. E. M. Bain, Inn of the Good Samaritan, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

27. R. E. M. Bain, The Arch of the Ecce Homo, Jerusalem, 1894. From Vincent and Lee, Earthly Footsteps

28. R. E. M. Bain, The Lower Pool of Solomon, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

29. R. E. M. Bain, The Spot Where Christ Prayed—Garden of Gethsemane, 1894. From Vincent and Lee, Earthly Footsteps

30. R. E. M. Bain, Flocks near the Pit into which Joseph was Thrown by His Brethren, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

31. R. E. M. Bain, The Tower of Jezreel, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

32. R. E. M. Bain, Ancient Bronze Doors, Tiberias, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

33. R. E. M. Bain, A Woman of Samaria, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

34. R. E. M. Bain, Dervish Beggars, 1894. From Vincent and Lee, Earthly Footsteps

35. Palestine Park, after 1888. Photograph, used by permission of the Chautauqua Institution Archives

36. Palestine Park, n.d. Photograph, used by permission of the Chautauqua Institution Archives

37. Chautauqua Men in Middle Eastern Dress, n.d. Photograph, used by permission of the Chautauqua Institution Archives

38. Oriental Group in Palestine Park. From Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 59 (August 1879)

39. H. C. White Co., Walls of Jerusalem and the Ferris Wheel Looking from West Restaurant Pavilion, 1904. Stereo photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

40. Miner Kellogg, Self-Portrait, n.d. 29-1/8 × 23-1/8. Cincinnati Art Museum. Gift of Paul G. Pennoyer

41. Miner Kellogg, Nile, 3rd and 4th Views, 1844. Pencil on paper, 13 × 8-3/4. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Martha F. Butler

42. Miner Kellogg, View of Theban Mountains, 1844. Pencil on paper, 8-3/4 × 13. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Martha F. Butler

43. Miner Kellogg, Sphynx with Pyramids of Ghizeh, 1844. Pencil on paper. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Martha F. Butler

44. Miner Kellogg, Jerusalem, 1844. Watercolor, 10-3/4 × 17-1/2. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Bequest of Martha F. Butler

45. Miner Kellogg, Sketch of the Artist Camped outside Jerusalem, n.d. Oil on cardboard, 11-3/4 × 10. Cincinnati Art Museum. Gift of Paul G. Pennoyer

46. Miner Kellogg, map of Mount Sinai and surrounding area. From Literary World 3 (February 1848)

47. Miner Kellogg, Mount Sinai and the Valley of Es-Seba’îyeh, n.d. 53 × 89. Present whereabouts unknown. Photograph, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Martha F. Butler

48. Henry Cheever Pratt, Moses on the Mount, 1828–29. 48-1/2 × 60-1/2. Shelburne Museum, Vermont

49. Miner Kellogg, St. John—Descent of the New Jerusalem, n.d. Pencil on paper. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Martha F. Butler

50. Miner Kellogg, The Sphinx, 1858. Gallier House Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

51. Edward Troye, John Bascombe, n.d. 25 × 30. Yale University Art Gallery, Whitney Collections of Sporting Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Given in memory of Harry Payne Whitney, B.A. 1894, and Payne Whitney, B.A. 1898, by Francis P. Garvan, B.A. 1897, M.A. (Hon.) 1922

52. Edward Troye, Bazaar in Damascus, c. 1856. 84 × 64. Bethany College, West Virginia

53. Edward Troye, The Sea of Tiberias, c. 1856. 44 × 66. Bethany College, West Virginia

54. Edward Troye, River Jordan—Bethabara, c. 1856. 44 × 66. Bethany College, West Virginia

55. Edward Troye, Syrian Ploughman, c. 1856. 72 × 120. Bethany College, West Virginia

56. François Marius Granet, The Choir of the Capuchin Church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome, 1815. 77-1/2 × 58-1/4. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of L. P. Everard

57. Edward Troye, Self-Portrait in a Carriage, 1852. 38 × 54. Yale University Art Gallery, Whitney Collections of Sporting Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Given in memory of Harry Payne Whitney, B.A. 1894, and Payne Whitney, B.A. 1898, by Francis P. Garvan, B.A. 1897, M.A. (Hon.) 1922

58. Benjamin W. Kilburn, Tilling the Soil in Palestine, c. 1873. Stereo photograph. The Bert M. Zuckerman Collection

59. Worthington Whittredge, Graves of Travellers, Fort Kearney, Nebraska, 1865. 7-5/16 × 23-13/16. © The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 69.29

60. William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat, 1854–55. 33-3/4 × 54-1/2. The Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside [Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England]

61. Promotional photograph of James Fairman, n.d. Private collection

62. James Fairman, Alpine Landscape with River, 1871. 32-1/2 × 45-1.8. Frank S. Schwarz and Son Gallery, Philadelphia

63. James Fairman, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1875. 31-3/4 × 45. Private collection

64. James Fairman, View of Jerusalem, n.d. 32 × 45. Private collection

65. James Fairman, View of Jerusalem, n.d. 32 × 44. Courtesy Mathaf Gallery, Ltd., London

66. James Fairman, Jerusalem, n.d. 31 × 44. Courtesy Museum of Church History and Art of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah

67. James Fairman, Jaffa, 1874. 31-3/4 × 35. Private collection

68. James Fairman, Figures in a Middle Eastern Landscape, n.d. 30-1/4 × 40-1/8. Private collection

69. Frederic Church, Heart of the Andes, as exhibited at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, New York, 1864. One half of stereo photograph. Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, New York

70. Detail of plate 3

71. Frederic Church, Moses Viewing the Promised Land, 1846. Oil on academy board, 9-1/2 × 12-1/4 (oval). Collection of Dr. Sheldon and Jessie Stern. Photograph courtesy Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

72. Frederic Church, Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Harford, in 1636, 1846. 40-1/4 × 60-3/16. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

73. Frederic Church, West Rock, New Haven, 1849. 26-1/2 × 40. New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, John B. Talcott Fund

74. Frederic Church, Cotopaxi, 1862. 48 × 85. © Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manoogian, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation, Gibbs-Williams Fund, Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund, Merrill Fund

75. Frederic Church, Ruins at Baalbek, 1868. 21-3/4 × 36-1/4. Private collection

76. Frederic Church, Anti-Lebanon, 1869. 21-1/2 × 36. Private collection

77. Théodore Frère, Jerusalem, View from the Valley of Jehoshaphat, 1881. 74 × 110.5 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

78. Frederic Church, Classical Ruins, Syria, 1868. Oil on thin creamboard, 7 × 10. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York. Gift of Louis P. Church

79. A. de Jorio, Present State of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli, 1830. Engraving by T. Bradley, from Lyell, Principles of Geology

80. Frederic Church, View from the Mountains toward Damascus, Syria, 1868. Oil on thin creamboard, 4-1/2 × 8-9/16. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York. Gift of Louis P. Church

81. Andrew Melrose, Damascus, n.d. 30 × 48-1/2. Private collection

82. Detail of plate 5

83. Engraved key to Frederic Church, Jerusalem, 1870. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

84. Frederic Church, Mountains of Edom, 1870. 20 × 30. Private collection

85. Frederic Church, Two Bedouin, 1868. Oil on cardboard. 12-1/2 × 17-7/8. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York. Gift of Louis P. Church

86. Frederic Church, Tropical Moonlight, 1874. 30-1/4 × 25-1/4. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Anonymous loan, L76.12

87. Frederic Church, Sunrise in Syria, 1874. 30-1/2 × 25-1/2. Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

88. R. E. M. Bain, Ruins of the Synagogue at Capernaum, 1894. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

89. Engraving after Frederic Church, A Composition, 1879. From Benjamin, “Fifty Years of American Art”

90. Frederic Church, Moonrise in Greece, 1889. 14-1/8 × 20-1/4. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California. Gift of Mrs. Lockwood de Forest

91. Jasper Cropsey, The Spirit of Peace, 1851. 43-3/4 × 67-3/8. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia. Bequest of Charles Knox Smith

92. Frederic Church, The Aegean Sea, c. 1877. 54-1/4 × 84-3/8. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Mrs. William H. Osborn

93. Frederic Church, Syria—Ruins by the Sea, n.d. 10-1/2 × 18. Courtesy of the Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania

94. Robert and Emily de Forest, Court Hall, Olana, 1884, albumen print, 6-1/4 × 8-3/8, David Huntington Archive, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Olana State Historic Site, Taconic Region

95. Henry O. Tanner, The Good Shepherd, c. 1902–3. 27 × 32. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. In memory of the deceased members of the Class of 1954

96. Sanford Gifford, Jaffa Gate, David’s Tower, 1869. Pencil on paper, 4-7/8 × 8-1/2. Private Collection. Photograph, courtesy Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York

97. Lockwood de Forest, Coast Scene, 1892. 21 × 30. National Academy of Design, New York

98. John Sargent, The Plains of Esdraelon, 1905–6. 28 × 43-1/2. Tate Gallery, London

99. John Sargent, Near the Mount of Olives, 1905–6. 25-1/2 × 38. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England

100. John Sargent, Palestine, 1905–6. 22-1/4 × 28-1/2. Private collection

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