Engraved by W. Finden after Turner. ( Finden's Landscape Illustrations of the Bible, Vol. I. Rawlinson 584. Wilton 1248.)
Turner based his composition on a sketch by Charles Barry. (See Ruskin's attitude to Turner compositions based on sketches by other artists.)
In The Elements of Drawing this engraving is recommended by Ruskin as particularly worthy of study ( Works, 15.76). In the fifth volume of Modern Painters, Ruskin discusses this image together with the Desert of Sinai as an example of Turner 's 'secret meanings', whereby 'the Sinai and the Lebanon... show the opposite influences of the Law and the Gospel' ( Works, 7.191-2).