David Roberts: Experience of Place

Burritt, Amanda M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41261-6_5

Amanda M. Burritt⁵

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Abstract

In this chapter it is argued that Roberts’s depictions resonated with a British Protestant public desirous of seeing where the events of the Bible took place. Roberts did not have an understanding of complex theological positions but his detailed and highly descriptive firsthand accounts helped Britain to visualise the lands of the Bible. His lithographs were widely distributed and influential. Contextualising this claim, aspects of British religious, theological and visual culture which influenced Roberts and which he influenced are also discussed.

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Burritt, A.M. (2020). David Roberts: Experience of Place. In: Visualising Britain’s Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century. Britain and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41261-6_5

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