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ORIGINAL 12" Circa 1900's PHOTOGRAPH Lehnert & Landrock Mosque Omar - $250 (Austin)
condition:
like new
make / manufacturer:
LEHNERT & LANDROCK
model name / number:
Mosque of Omar
size / dimensions:
9-1/2" x 12"
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* Craigslist IMAGE is low-res with watermark
* Antique Vintage PhotoGravure Jerusalem Mosque of Omar Palestine Middle East 1900s -- It is believed the glass printing plates for this amazing image were destroyed during the American & British bombardment of Germany in World War II. An Islamic Islam place of worship inside the Old City of Jerusalem for Muslims Muslim. Arab.
* Lehnert & Landrock Photographs are auctioned at Sotheby's, Christie's and sold on 1stDibs.
* DIMENSIONS: 9-1/2" x 12" (with margins)
* Circa 1900's sepia-toned PHOTOGRAVURE from the studio of Lehnert & Landrock, with their distinctive stamp & numeration '2195' at lower leftthand edge of image. Near fine print. Striking sepia-toned image.
* The Mosque of Omar. The second mosque on the Temple Mount, the al-Aqsa Mosque, is holier to Muslims than the Mosque of Omar, but 19th and early 20th century photographers focused much more on "the Dome of the Rock" Mosque of Omar.
* Al-Ka’as fountain, carved from one single piece of stone, is encircled with sacred washing stations for cleansing prior to prayer. Al-Ka’as (meaning ‘Cup’) is an ablution fountain that was built by the Ayoubi Sultan Al-Adel Abu Bakr bin Ayoub in 1193.
* Dome of the Rock, looking towards the south. The "Cup", the ablution fountain, is between the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
* Founded in 1904, Lehnert & Landrock was a photographic studio run by Rudolf Franz Lehnert and Ernst Heinrich Landrock active in Tunisia and Egypt in the early 20th century. They travelled to Tunisia in 1904 and opened a photography shop in Avenue de France, Tunis that Lehnert used as a base for his various photographic expeditions At the beginning of WW1, the shop was closed when martial law was declared in French colonies and, on 4 August 1914, Lehnert was arrested, made a prisoner of war and sent to an internment camp in Corsica, while Landrock was held in Switzerland. After the war, and following the return of their confiscated glass plates, they initially set up a business in Leipzig. Before long Lehnert was on the move again, traveling to the Middle East; Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon. Today, their works can be found in the collections of the Penn Museum Archives in Philadelphia, the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, and the San Francisco State University Museum, among others.
* Graded [ VG+ ]. The paper is a thicker card stock.
* Lehnert & Landrock PHOTO # 2195
* YEAR/DATE: c. 1900-1920
* ARTIST/ILLUSTRATOR/PHOTOGRAPHER: Lehnert & Landrock
* PRINT TYPE: Heliogravure ( Photogravure )
* GRADE: [ VG+ ]
* BACK: Hand-written / Signed "Mosque of Omar"
* Non-smoking & Pet-free home.