DescriptionSaint-John of the Hermits(1840Lithograph).JPG
San Giovanni degli Eremiti (St. John of the Hermits), Palermo, Sicily.
This is a cropped and tinted image of plate VI from: Knight, Henry Gally (1840). Saracenic and Norman remains, to illustrate the Normans in Sicily. London: Murray. The lithograph was printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel. A scan of the original lithograph is available from MIT Dome.
The book of lithographs were intended to supplement Knight's book "The Normans in Sicily" which had been published by Murray two years earlier. A scan of the book is available from Internet Archive
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From a reproduction in Antinino Buttita (2006) "Les Normands en Sicile: XIe-XXIe siècles : histoire et légendes"
based on a drawing by George Belton Moore (1806-1875)
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Saint-John of the Hermits built in Palermo by Roger II around 1143–1148. 1840 lithography