Rachel's Grave, In The Wilderness. As Seen From A Terraced Fig-Garden In The Village Of Bethlehem.
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Rachel's Grave, In The Wilderness. As Seen From A Terraced Fig-Garden In The Village Of Bethlehem.
From the album "Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean Between The Years 1846-52. With, Or Without, Notes, Historical, And Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer."
ca. 1852
Salted paper print
15.7 x 20.2 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "Rachel's Grave, In The Wilderness. As Seen
From A Terraced Fig-Garden In The Village Of Bethlehem." "'A bank
Wheron the wild thyme grows.' 'An Rachel travailed...'" "This most
touching, and beautiful, little history of her who thus died so sadly,
has consecrated, for many an age, yet a lovely, spot here - far from
any human habitation. Saint Jerome, who himself dies in Bethlehem,
writes of it in the year 333: - about which time it was recorded as
Rachel's grave, in the Itin. Hieros. Josephus also (Ant. i. 21)..."
From A Terraced Fig-Garden In The Village Of Bethlehem." "'A bank
Wheron the wild thyme grows.' 'An Rachel travailed...'" "This most
touching, and beautiful, little history of her who thus died so sadly,
has consecrated, for many an age, yet a lovely, spot here - far from
any human habitation. Saint Jerome, who himself dies in Bethlehem,
writes of it in the year 333: - about which time it was recorded as
Rachel's grave, in the Itin. Hieros. Josephus also (Ant. i. 21)..."
