Caption:
The Grotto of the Nativity, Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, 1800s. Grotta della Nativita. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1833. Copied from Luigi Mayers Views in Egypt, Palestine and Other Parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1804.