Items in or near Palestine (results page 1)

Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole WorldThe Lost Boy (1913)

“At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...]

Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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The Good ShepherdBible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: easter, religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, bare feet, purple, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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Frontispiece: The Ostrich.Bible Animals (1877)

“What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider”—Job xxxix. 18.

The engraving shows an ostrich fleeing from a group of men on horses brandishing spears.

Keywords: birds, ostriches, people, horses, biblical scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-07-06

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The Boy was the Joy of the JourneyThe Lost Boy (1913)

“The Boy was the joy of the journey. His keen interest in all things seen and heard was like a refreshing spring of water to the older pilgrims, who had so often traveled the same road that they had f [...]

Keywords: children, paintings, people, bare feet, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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The House Built upon the Sand.Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

What a foolish man the builder of the house shown in our picture must have been! Of course, when the wind blew and the waves dashed against his house, it would fall. Look how the sea has washed the [...]

Keywords: biblical scenes, illustrations for children, storms, ruins, architecture, domes, bricks, waves, water, night scenes, disaster, ruins, people, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2013-09-28

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The Virgin and ChildA Short History of the English People (1902)

From MS. Roy. 2 A. XXII. 13th Century. The Virgin mary holds the baby Jesus in her arm. Incense burns in the background. Mary wears a dirk blue skirt with stars and an embroidered hem. She sits on a [...]

Keywords: people, religion, christmas, colour

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-11-03

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Nativity of Christ [detail: crib scene]Astrology (1806)

This engraved drawing of the Nativity, that is, of the birth of Jesus Christ, appears beneath the atrological star chart for Jesus. The nativity scene shows Mary and Joseph, with the new-born baby boy [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, children, astrology, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-12-19

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Nazareth, PalestineFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

A photograph of the town Nazareth, captioned (in 1894) as being in Palestine (it was captured in 1948 by the then-new invading European Israeli army): NAZARETH, PALESTINE—Few Oriental towns are so at [...]

Keywords: photographs, towns, cities, buildings, israel, greyscale

Places shown: Nazareth; Palestine

Added: 2024-08-10

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Ancient Representation of the NativityHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A picture for Christmas, taken from the entry for December 24th. “This introduction of the ox and the ass warming the infant in the crib with their breath, is a fanciful construction by catholic write [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, astrology, animals, peoplechristmas, greyscale

Places shown: Bethlehem; Judea; Palestine

Added: 2005-10-24

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Engraving: And Now When The Even Was ComeThe Four Gospels (1931)

The text, “And now when the even was come” is a quote from the Gospel of Mark, 15:42. The word Even here is short for Evening. In the wood engraving, a barefoot man climbs a ladder and another man (st [...]

Keywords: religion, easter, death, ladders, people, bare feet, typography, lettering, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2012-04-08

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Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.Great Races of Mankind Vol III (1893)

This full-page colour illustration is opposite to the chapter opening for Part III, Semites and Hamites, Book XIV, The Aramæns, Chapter 102, The Old Asshurites.

Keywords: views, deserts, mountains, people, camels, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2024-08-24

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Chaldee WomanGreat Races of Mankind Vol III (1893)

A woman bundled up in layers of clothing leans against a wall in this engraving.

Drawn by Emile Bayard, from a photograph.

Keywords: women, people, costumes, clothing, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2024-08-24

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The Nativity (1504)Engravings on Metal by Albrecht Duerer

One of a number of pictures that Albrecht Dürer [Duerer] made of the Nativity, i.e. the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, a significant religious event to people of the Christian religion. The birth here t [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, buildings, people, colour

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-11-12

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La Sainte CrècheMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Pignon de droite de la façade du Dôme de Sienne. Mosaïque nouvelle. Dessin de M. Marinelli, d’après le carton de L. Mussini. A nativity scene, or crib, or in the US a crêche or creche, showing the bir [...]

Keywords: christmas, nativity, people, angels, wings, infants, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2009-12-14

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The Angel Appears Unto Mary.Religion in the Home (1913)

The Angel Appears Unto Mary.—Luke 1:35. Here the angel is a barefoot man with wings and a long robe, carrying I think an olive branch, and a dove flies overhead. Mary stands by a reading-stand. The p [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, angels, people, wings, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Nazareth; Palestine

Added: 2007-12-13

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Crusaders conquor JerusalemLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

A knight in ring-mail holds the Crusaders’ flag aloft on the top of a castle wall. He points a sword at some defending bowmen just as another knight, climing a siege ladder to be next to him, is shot [...]

Keywords: knights, battles, people, weapons, flags, banners, battements, sieges, swords, bows, helmets, shields, ringmail, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2023-02-04

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Engraving: Jesus King of the JewsThe Four Gospels (1931)

And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in [...]

Keywords: religion, easter, death, resurrection, christmas, people, lettering, typography, royalty, christianity, bible pictures, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2014-12-01

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Jesus teaching in the TempleReligion in the Home (1913)

“Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.”— Luke 2:52. When Herod died, Joseph brought our blessed Lord and His mother back from Egypt, and went to live at Nazareth. We d [...]

Keywords: people, religion, christmas, scholars, beards, bare feet, interiors, temples, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2010-11-18

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Bethlehem.Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

Engraved expressly for the Christian Parlor Magazine. W.H. Battlett. A.L. Dick. “Bethlehem, the birth-place of David and our Saviour Jesus Christ, is a village in Palestine, a part of Syria, in the Pa [...]

Keywords: views, cities, people, camels, entrances, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Bethlehem; Damascus; Palestine

Added: 2006-01-17

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GibeonGood Words (1865)

Gibeon was a Canaanite settlement north of Jerusalem; the ruins pictured here are later, from the Iron Age, long after Israelites had arrived, slaughtered the locals, built new condominiums, and decla [...]

Keywords: palestine, buildings, terraces, walls, trees, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Al-Gib; Palestine

Added: 2025-01-07

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