Plates from F. B. Spilsbury’s 1823 work “Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800” .

Plates (llustrations) from books 1 Minute
“A market in Acre.” Page 50. Drawn and engraved by W. Stack after a drawing by F. B. Spilsbury. Collectjons of the Beirut Heritage Society. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/picturesque-scenery-in-the-holy-land-and-syria/page/n50/mode/1up
“A burial place at Beirut.” Page 53. Page 50. Drawn and engraved by W. Stack after a drawing by F. B. Spilsbury. Collectjons of the Beirut Heritage Society. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/picturesque-scenery-in-the-holy-land-and-syria/page/n53/mode/1up
“Zeta near Jaffa in Syria.” Page 63. Drawn and engraved by W. Stack after a drawing by F. B. Spilsbury. Collectjons of the Beirut Heritage Society. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/picturesque-scenery-in-the-holy-land-and-syria/page/n63/mode/1up
“Arab Huts at Zeta.” Page 66. Drawn and engraved by W. Stack after a drawing by F. B. Spilsbury. Collectjons of the Beirut Heritage Society. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/picturesque-scenery-in-the-holy-land-and-syria/page/n66/mode/1up

F. B. Spilsbury was a surgeon with the British army so these are engravings made from drawings he did while in Syria and the Holy Land when it was part of the Ottoman Empire and ruled from Constantinople (Istanbul). At that time the Holy Land (now Israel, the west bank and Gaza) which was the Palestinian eyelet of province along with Jordan, Lebanon and Syria made up the Ottoman province of Syria which was governed from Beirut.

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