Click here for the
complete Darvill's
collection of genuine
1910s-1920s
Lehnert and Landrock heliogravures

From the pages of the National Geographic magazine and
picture postcards on sale in European kiosks nearly
one hundred years ago, to the black and white prints
that sell year in and year out at the Sherif Street
bookstore that still bears their name, the photographs
of Lehnert & Landrock sustain a vanishing romantic
image of the Arab world.
These authentic photo lithographs ("heliogravures" or photogravures") measure approx. 9½ by 12 inches (23 x 30 cm) and are generally sepia-toned, but many have been coloured by a seemingly hand-tinted photo process. Several larger desert panorama scenes are also available, measuring approx. 12 x 23 inches (30 x 60 cm.)
It is believed the glass printing plates
for these amazing images were destroyed during the American & British bombardment of Germany in World War II.