Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 171. MOTTRAM, CHARLES [AFTER HENRY COURTNEY SELOUS] | Jerusalem in Her Grandeur [with]: Jerusalem in Her Fall. Scarborough and London: George Lord Beeforth, and Hayward & Leggatt, 1860.

MOTTRAM, CHARLES [AFTER HENRY COURTNEY SELOUS] | Jerusalem in Her Grandeur [with]: Jerusalem in Her Fall. Scarborough and London: George Lord Beeforth, and Hayward & Leggatt, 1860

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December 18, 08:58 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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MOTTRAM, CHARLES [AFTER HENRY COURTNEY SELOUS]

Jerusalem in Her Grandeur [with]: Jerusalem in Her Fall. Scarborough and London: George Lord Beeforth, and Hayward & Leggatt, 1860


A pair of engravings (to sight: 26 1/4 x 38 1/2 in.; 667 x 978 cm). Each richly hand-colored, each stamped with the engraver's monogram in red ink at lower left; "Jerusalem in Her Grandeur": minor marginal soiling, pin holes scattered at the center of edge, two closed tears, one of which repaired, along lower left edge; "Jerusalem in Her Fall": minor foxing and soiling, two closed tears repaired. Framed and glazed; not examined out of frames. 


A handsome pair of engravings, depicting the Temple Mount from its two extreme, historical vantage points.