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
Property of a gentleman
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.