Finden's 'Landscape Illustrations to the Bible'

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Artist/Maker	Turner, Joseph Mallord William (artist) William Finden (engraver)
Place of origin	Britain (engraved)

Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, illustrating a scene from the Bible

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Categories	Prints Illustration Christianity Judaism Islam
Object type	Print
Titles	Finden's 'Landscape Illustrations to the Bible' (series title) Ramah and Rachel's Tomb (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Line engraving on steel Paper Line Engraving
Brief description	Line engraving on steel by W. Finden depicting Ramah and Rachel's Tomb, after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner, for Finden's 'Landscape Illustrations to the Bible'. Great Britain, 1836.
Physical description	Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, illustrating a scene from the Bible
Credit line	Bequeathed by Horace Mummery
Subjects depicted	Bible Tombs Judaism Mosque Islam
Place depicted	Bethlehem
Bibliographic reference	Rachel's Tomb, also known as the Bilal bin Rabah mosque to Muslims, is the name given to a small religious building revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Bethlehem municipality. The burial place of the matriarch Rachel as mentioned in the Jewish and Christian Old Testament, and in Muslim literature is contested between this site and several others to the north. The earliest extra-biblical records describing this tomb as Rachel's burial place date to the first decades of the 4th century CE. The present structure consists of two chambers; one, a domed chamber, is of Muslim Ottoman construction. Rachel's tomb is the third holiest site in Judaism. Jews have made pilgrimage to the tomb since ancient times, and it has become one of the cornerstones of Jewish-Israeli identity.
Other number	R581 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest)
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.4605-1946

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O603565/findens-landscape-illustrations-to-the-print-turner-joseph-mallord/

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