• Louis De Clercq (photographer)

Album of views of Jerusalem showing religious and public architecture, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel)

published 1859-1860

- Album PH1980:0048.03:001-028 comprises 22 views of religious sites and architecture, five views of public architecture, and one view combining both religious and public architecture. -- The 22 views of religious sites and architecture comprise eight views of or including churches; four views of tombs; three views of towers related to religious sites or structures; two views of or including mosques; two views including minarets; and one view each of or including a convent, a garden, a grotto, a synagogue, a temple, a hospice, and the House of Caiaphas. -- The five views of public architecture include three views of city gates, one view of fortifications and two cityscapes. -- The view combining both religious and public architecture shows both a city gate and a Muslim cemetery.

Albumen silver prints from paper negatives

album (closed): 46 x 61,5 x 3,3 cm comps. (range): 20 to 28,5 x 20,4 to 79,9 cm pages (range): 45,7 to 59,1 x 45,7 to 117,6 cm

PH1980:0048.03:001-028

• distant views
• exterior views
• interior views
• oblique view

- Contemporary binding consists of a red leather spine, full red leather boards covered with cloth, gilt trim and lettering, and moiré endpapers. Album has full title page. Albums PH1980:0048.03:001-028 and PH1980:0048.04:001-016 of "L. de Clercq / Voyage / en Orient" are bound together. Pages PH1980:0048.03:002 - PH1980:0048.03:008, PH1980:0048.03:012, PH1980:0048.03:018 and PH1980:0048.04:001 - PH1980:0048.04:010 are unbound.

stamped and numbered - in gold, on the cover, c.: with title and "- 4" inscribed and signed - by the photographer, in black ink, on the front end paper, u.r.: "A Maman Sophie. / Respecteux hommage de l'auteur. / Louis de Clercq" imprinted and dated - in black ink, on title page, u.c. to l.c.: "VOYAGE EN ORIENT / Vues de Jérusalem et des Vieux Saints / EN / PALESTINE / Recueil photographique exécuté par / LOUIS DE CLERCQ / 1859 1860 / TROISIÈME ALBUM / J.Blondeau [sic] et Antonin Script - Lith.H.Jannin,Paris [sic]"

Jerusalem; Israel;

• architecture
• militaire

• garden
• entrances
• ruins
• temple
• street
• doors
• houses
• dome
• mosques
• city gates
• tombs
• fortifications
• cemetery
• portal
• churches
• mountain
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• towers (single built works)
• minarets
• citadels
• graves
• chapel
• convent
• cityscapes
• foundations (structural elements)
• grotto
• hospice
• exterior walls
• synagogues

Contient:

• PH1980:0048.03:001, Panorama of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:002, View of the Dome, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Omar Minaret, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:003, View of the principal façade of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:004, View of the David Tower from the northeast showing the Solomonian foundations, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:005, Exterior view of Saint Anne's Church, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:006, View of the principal façade of Saint Anne's Church, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:007, Interior view of the Saint Anne's Church, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:008, View of the Austrian Hospice and Saint John's Church from the southwest, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:009, View of Jerusalem from the west showing the Mount of Olives and the Antonia Tower, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:011, Distant view of the Omar Mosque, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:012, View of the Western Wall of the Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:013, View of a street showing the entrance to the Great Convent, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:014, View of the fortifications, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:015, View of Jerusalem from the south showing the Protestant Chapel (Christ's Church) in the background, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:016, View of Jerusalem from the southwest showing the Synagogue, the Minaret of the Mosque of Kabir, and the Omar Mosque in the background, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:017, View of the Hebron and Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:018, View of the Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:019, View of the Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:020, View of the Golden Gate showing the Muslim cemetery in the foreground, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:021, Distant view the House of Caiaphas on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:022, View of the Gethsemane Garden on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:023, Exterior view of the Jeremiah Grotto, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:024, View of the Tomb of the Kings, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:025, View of the Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:026, View of the Tomb of Absalom, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:027, View of the Tomb of Saint James and the Tomb of Zachariah, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• PH1980:0048.03:028, View of Saint John in the Desert Church [?], Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860
• Ph1980:0048.03:010, Exterior view of the foundations [?] of the Antonia Tower, Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (now in Israel), 1859-1860