ID 793342
Los 134 | DAVID ROBERTS, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1796-1864 LONDON)
Schätzwert
£ 15 000 – 20 000
Mosque, El Mooristan, Cairo, Egypt
signed 'David Roberts R.A.' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'Cairo Dec 29th 1838./ Mosque El Mooristan' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on buff paper
18 3⁄4 x 12 1⁄2 in. (47.6 x 31.7 cm.)
Provenance
Probably David Roberts, R.A. (+); Christie's, London, 13 & 15 May 1865, lot 58 as 'Cairo - Street View, & Minaret of the Mooristan, with many figures' (41 gns to Agnew).
John Pender (+); Christie's, London, 31 May 1897, lot 229, as 'Bazaar of the Street leading to the Mosque of the Mooristan, Cairo' (21 gns to W.R. Smith).
Merton Russell Cotes; Christie's, London, 11 March 1905, lot 12, as 'Bazaar on the street leading to the Mosque of the Mooristan, Cairo' (to Bowden).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 February 1909, lot 66.
W.B. Thomson.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 May 1966, lot 107.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 December 2010, lot 78, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
'Visits to Private Gallaries. The Collection of John Pender, Esq. M.P. Arlington Street', Art Journal, 1872, p. 10.
Pictures, Drawings and Sculpture forming the Collection of Sir John Pender GCMG, MP, from 10 Arlington Street, SW & Foot's Cray Place, Kent, 1894, p. 181, no. 209.
Exhibited
Roberts' Studio, 1865, no. 297.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Visions of the Ottoman Empire, August - November 1994, unnumbered.
| Künstler: | David Roberts (1796 - 1864) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Aquarell |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Künstler: | David Roberts (1796 - 1864) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Aquarell |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
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