1858Jerusalem
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Francis Frith.
Elevated photograph
1858·Jerusalem
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Francis Frith.
Elevated photograph · Altered
What this plate shows
An elevated photograph, not a drawn panorama. Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives in 1858: olive ground in the foreground, the wall, the Dome of the Rock, the packed city, hills behind. A camera on the hill. Present status of the whole view: altered. The named monuments that are actually in the frame still stand.
- Image type
- Elevated photograph
- Structure
- The walled city, seen from the Mount of Olives. The Dome of the Rock and the city wall are in the view.
- Region
- Middle East
- Documented completion
- Dome of the Rock, 691. The wall is a later fabric on an older line.
- Present status
- Altered — The Dome and the wall still stand. The slopes, the roads, and many roofs do not match this exposure. This is a city view, not a status for every building in it.
- Source
- Albumen print from Frith’s 1857–58 expedition. Wikimedia Commons scan of the published plate. Scale of that raster.
- License
- Public domain (Frith died 1898; published 1850s).