Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

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Property of a gentleman

DAVID ROBERTS, R.A. | ENCAMPMENT OF PILGRIMS AT JERICHO

Lot Closed

July 29, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a gentleman

DAVID ROBERTS, R.A.

Edinburgh 1796 - 1864 London

ENCAMPMENT OF PILGRIMS AT JERICHO


Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil, heightened with gum arabic;

inscribed lower left: april 1st 1839.

framed: 450 by 530 mm

unframed: 236 by 330 mm


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Probably Lord Francis Egerton, afterwards 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), purchased from the artist;

The Ellesmere sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1870, lot 45, bt. Brooke;

Mrs Edward Berry,

sale, London, Christie's, 6 May 1872, lot 80, bt. Vokins;

Albert Wood;

sale, London, Christie's, 15 May 1894, lot 111, bt. Shepherd;

Johnstone Smith,

sale, London, Christie's, 21-24 February, 1936, lot 250, bt. M.Newman;

sale, Richmond, Tennants, 25 October 1986, lot 307;

with the Fulda Galleries, Manchester;

by whom sold to the father-in-law of the present owner

Lithographed: Holy Land, 1843, Vol.II, [pl.46] as Encampment of Pilgrims, Jericho; 1855, vol. II, pl. 46 as Encampment of the Pilgrims at Jericho.