Nurtured on Bible stories and tales of the exotic Orient, Roberts had always dreamed of exploring the Holy Land, though travel there was an arduous, dangerous undertaking. His use of light, color, and atmosphere lent an aura of exoticism to his realistic view. The vantage point from which Roberts sketched the city reveals a goatherd leading his flock toward a small ancient settlement with walled fortifications, ruins, and a mosque replete with minaret. A group of people stand near to a circle of tents in an open plain below the city. Was a master lithographer who, in Roberts’ own words reproduced his drawing(s)’with a masterly vigour and boldness which none but a painter like him could have transferred to stone. Haghe has not only surpassed himself, but all that has hitherto been done of a similar nature’. Roberts’ original drawings when compared with the lithographs created by Haghe show that he conveyed the spirit of the original work in a masterly way. Day & Son’Royal Lithographers to Queen Victoria. Some of the most ambitious and accomplished printmaking projects of the Victorian era were launched by the lithographic publishers, Day & Son. The firm began in the mid 1820’s under the title of’Day & Hague’ and assumed its more familiar name in 1845. Throughout their early years they printed and published lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as, hunting scenes, genre depictions and topographical views. In the late 1840’s, however, Day & Son came to the forefront as a pioneer of the recently discovered medium of the color lithograph; that is, printing lithographs in color by utilizing a series of meticulously registered tint and color stones.