Sinai and Palestine
Sinai and Palestine, a photographic volume compiled by Francis Frith and published in 1862, drawn from the Heidelberg University Library collection and aimed at readers interested in biblical lands. The four plates are rotated sideways on the page and show dense stone-built towns on hillsides, flat-roofed houses with terraces, a distant plain with a hazy mountain range, and a walled garden or enclosure among trees; a designer might take their pale tonal range, hard stone textures and layered terraced compositions as reference for landscape or vintage travel photography.
