A wide landscape engraving of the Judean hill country surrounding Jerusalem — rocky, semi-arid, the terraced hillsides sparsely vegetated with low shrubs and scattered olive trees. Jerusalem sits on its ridge in the middle distance, its modest pre-Temple buildings clustered tightly on the slope. The landscape is rendered in fine parallel etching lines, capturing the stony texture of the ground, the dry riverbeds below, the haze of the horizon. The sky is pale sepia, cloudless. A few figures with laden donkeys pick their way along a hillside path, emphasizing both the terrain’s difficulty and the human scale against the vast, indifferent landscape. The mood is documentary and geographical rather than dramatic — a establishing shot rendered in 1880s engraved style.]