David Roberts, R.A.

Lord Francis Egerton, later 1^st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), purchased from the artist,

The Ellesmere Sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1870, lot 9, bt Vokins,

with J. & W. Vokins, London;

Captain Eric Heatley Noble of Park Place, near Henley and then later Harpsden Court, Henley-on-Thames, by 1945;

sale, Oxford, Mallams, 28 October 1983, unknown lot number, bt Leger,

with The Leger Galleries, London, from whom acquired in 1984 by Agnew's on behalf of the parents of the present owners. 

Lithographed:

by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, London 1842, vol. I, pl. 10 & London 1855, pl. 10

Possibly Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, Section 7: Drawings in Water-Colours, no. 761;

London, The Leger Galleries, English Watercolours, The Annual Exhibition, 1984, no. 31;

London, Barbican Art Gallery, David Roberts, 1986-7, no. 158;

Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, on long-term loan, 2015 - 2021  

G. Norman, ‘Treasures from the Orientalists’, The Times, 29 October 1983

The watercolour was lithographed for The Holy Land series. It is one of seven works that take Jerusalem as its subject in the sale (please see lots 309-313, 322 & 323). For further information on Roberts’s time in the city, please see lot 309.