David Roberts, R.A.
Mount Tabor from the Plain of Esdraelon
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April 29, 03:51 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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David Roberts, R.A.
(Edinburgh 1796 - 1864 London)
Mount Tabor from the Plain of Esdraelon
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour,
signed lower right: David Roberts R.A.; inscribed and dated lower left: Mount Tabor from the plain of Esdraelon. / april 19th 1839.
245 by 344 mm.
Probably Lord Francis Egerton, later 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), purchased from the artist,
The Ellesmere Sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1870, lot 26, bt E. White;
James Hamilton Houldsworth of Coltness House, Wishaw (1867-1941), by 1911;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 November 1986, lot 152, bt Agnew's on behalf of the parents of the present owners.
Lithographed:
by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, London 1842, vol. I, pl. 27 & London 1855, vol. I, pl. 27 (as Mount Tabor)
Possibly Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, Section 7: Drawings in Water-Colour, no. 754;
Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park, The Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry, 1911, no. 774;
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, on long-term loan, 2015 - 2021
This watercolour was lithographed for The Holy Land series and is based on a sketch made by Roberts made on the 19th of April 1839 when en route to Nazareth. The summit of Mount Tabor (Jebel-el-Tur) stands at over a thousand feet above the plains of Esdraelon to the south-east of Nazareth.
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