19th Century Prints and Photographs of Jerusalem

For hundreds of years interest in Jerusalem, the holy city, remained strong. Descriptions of the city were the subject of a growing number of travel books in the 19th Century. In representing Jerusalem artists used these descriptions, alongside sketches of the city and their own imagination.

Shortly after the invention of photography in last 1830s, Western photographers arrived in Jerusalem. Many artists used these photographs to base their representation of the city.

This exhibition is based on the National Maritime Museum's rich collection of prints. It examines how the city was represented in the 19th Century, also in relation to early photographs.