Tag: Lebanon

Landscapes of a Levant that isn’t coming back. Colored lithographic plates from C. W. M. Van de Velde’s 1857 work “Le Pays d’Israel.” All of the landscapes are of what was then part of the Ottoman province of Syria.

Le Pays d’Isreal: Wady Fasail le Torrent de Kerith. Page 16 of C. W. M. Van de Velde’s Le Pays d’Israel. Published in Paris, France in 1857 by Jules Renouard. Printed in Paris by Lemercier. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/cwm-van-de-velde-le-pays-d-israel-1857/page/16/mode/1up

Beirout: Vue prise de la route de Schemlรคn. Page 17 of C. W. M. Van de Velde’s Le Pays d’Israel. L. Sabatier, lithographer. Printed in Paris by Lemercier. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/cwm-van-de-velde-le-pays-d-israel-1857/page/17/mode/1up

Le Village de A’Beyh: Mont Liban S. E. de Beirout. Page 18 of C. W. M. Van de Velde’s Le Pays d’Israel. Eugene Ciceri, lithographer. Printed in Paris by Lemercier. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/cwm-van-de-velde-le-pays-d-israel-1857/page/18/mode/1up