DAVID ROBERTS, R.A. | THE MOORISH TOWER AT SEVILLE, CALLED THE GIRALDA

Bought from the artist in 1834 by George Goodin Barrett (1792–1854) for £115.10;

By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 23 February 1839, lot 119, to Hodgson;

Richard Hodgson, FRAS, FRMS (1804–1872);

By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 20 April 1844, lot 43, to Creswick;

Lewis Loyd (1811–1891), Monks Orchard, Beckenham, Kent, by 1852;

By descent to Captain E.N.F. Loyd, Shaw Hill, Melksham, Wiltshire;

His sale, London, Christie’s, 30 April 1937, lot 79, to Baird for £25.4;

Mrs Innes Moore, 15 Royal Crescent, Bath;

By whom gifted to the Abbot of Downside, circa 1949.

David Roberts’ Record Books, 1821–1864, Yale Center for British Art, number 58;

The Athenaeum, 1834, pp. 227 and 258;

Literary Gazette, 19 March 1834, p. 227;

The Times, 24 March 1834, p. 5;

The Athenaeum, 1857, p. 566;

Art Journal, 1858, p. 202;

J. Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts R.A., Edinburgh 1866, pp. 61, 69, 74 and 248, cat. no. 67;

H. Guiterman et al., Artist Adventurer. David Roberts 1796–1864, Scottish Arts Council, exh. cat., Edinburgh 1981, p. 19, reproduced;

K. Sim, David Roberts R.A., London 1984, pp. 97, 99 and 101–2;

H. Guiterman and B. Llewellyn, David Roberts, exh. cat., Oxford 1986, p. 111, cat. no. 104, reproduced in colour p. 46, pl. 38;

F. Calvo Serraller and J. Portus, Iconografia de Sevilla, 1790–1868, vol. III, Madrid 1991.