Flowers from the Holy Land: Fleurs de Terre Sainte.
Jerusalem: , circa 1920.
$450.00
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Item Number: RRB-152383
Flowers from the Holy Land: An Olive Wood Album of Pressed Flowers, Jerusalem, circa 1920
Rare olive wood souvenir album of pressed flowers from the Holy Land, produced in Jerusalem around 1920. Oblong duodecimo, original olive wood boards with a cloth spine, comprising twelve plates of views of the Holy Land and eleven plates of flowers gathered from biblical sites and pressed into decorative and religious arrangements. The title page bears the legend “Remembrance from the British soldiers conqueror of the Holy Land,” and the views include Jerusalem, Nazareth, the Garden of Gethsemane, and Bethlehem. In very good condition.
Pressed-flower albums of the Holy Land, bound in olive wood and filled with flowers gathered from biblical sites, were popular devotional souvenirs produced in Jerusalem from the late nineteenth century through the years of the British Mandate. Following General Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem in 1917 and the end of Ottoman rule, such albums were often carried home by British soldiers and pilgrims as remembrances of the Holy Land. Combining views of sacred sites, among them Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and the Garden of Gethsemane, with real flowers pressed into decorative and religious designs, they are charming artifacts of early twentieth-century pilgrimage and of the era of the First World War in Palestine.
Flowers from the Holy Land: Fleurs de Terre Sainte.
$450.00
In Stock