The Plain of Esdraelon inspired not only Jonas King but also the Scottish artist David Roberts, who visited the Levant in the late 1830s. His paintings and lithographs of Biblical sites found a wide audience in the West. Christian pilgrims appear in the foreground of this piece.

(The Holy Land: From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts, R.A., with Historical Descriptions by the Rev. George Croly, L.L.D. [New York: Rizzoli, 2000], 110–11)