Damascus Panorama Syria Antique 1894 Picture Print PP#DS

Description: Damascus Panorama Syria 1894 Antique Print A print from a disbound book published in 1894. The reverse side has an unrelated picture. Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 8" x 10" or 20cm x 25cm Actual page including border and text is approx 10.5" x 12.75" or 26.5cm x 32.5cm This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. 1894 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a tube or Large Letter size box for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) DAMASCUS, SYRIA.—The Arabs nave long regarded Damascus as a foretaste of Paradise, and have called it exultantly "The joy of the whole earth." In fact to the followers of Mahomet, emerging from the deserts of Arabia, this must have seemed to them the Garden of the Gods. The Roman Emperor, Julian, called it the Eye of the East, Persian and Arabic poets have sung of its beauty in rapturous strains. It appears in the distance like an oasis of dense, luxuriant foliage, from which rise scores of bulbous domes and glittering minarets. Like all Oriental cities, it proves somewhat disenchanting upon close inspection, but its fountains, its stately trees, its air laden with the perfume of unnumbered gardens, its mosques, anditsmarvellous bazars—all these together make Damascus the rival of Cairo, a place where the jewelled portals of the Orient open wide before us, and all our anticipations of the East are realized. Even the houses, which appear plain and unattractive without, contain apartments of great luxury, with marble-paved courtyards and a profusion of rare flowers, graceful fountains, rich Syrian tapestries, and soft divans upon which rest in voluptuous languor some Eastern women lulled by the murmur of melodious fountains into that dreamy repose so dear to all inhabitants of the Orient. Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the world; so old, that it is useless to try to recount its history here. It has seen many masters. Faith after faith has flourished here, from that of Jove to that of Mahomet. It has lain for ages like a lovely slave in the market-place contended for by wrangling rivals. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2024-09-19T17:05:46.000Z

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