David Roberts, R.A.
Nazareth
Auction Closed
April 29, 03:51 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
David Roberts, R.A.
(Edinburgh 1796 - 1864 London)
Nazareth
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white,
inscribed and dated lower left: Nazareth April 20th 1839 and lower right: Lower Ridge
166 by 245 mm.
Probably The Artist’s Studio Sale, London, Christie's, 13 May 1865, possibly lot 55, bt Gambart or lot 555 bt ‘Col’;
Christopher, 2nd Baron Sherfield (1942-2006);
with Agnew's, London, by 1982, from whom acquired by the parents of the present owners.
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, on long-term loan, 2015 - 2021
Roberts stayed at the Latin Convent at Nazareth for two nights, arriving there in the late afternoon of the 19th of April and departing on Sunday the 21st for Cana and the Sea of Galilee.
The present watercolour, which is likely to have been made on-the-spot, is connected to the large-scale watercolour that was used by Louis Haghe for his lithograph in The Holy Land series (see the previous lot).
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