ID 793440
Lot 133 | DAVID ROBERTS, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1796-1864 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
The Grand Portico at the Temple at Esneh, Egypt
inscribed and dated 'Temple at Esneh 25th/ 1838' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on buff paper
12 3⁄8 x 18 5⁄8 in. (31.5 x 47.4 cm.)
Provenance
John Gordon of Cluny, and by descent to
R.A.C. Linzee Gordon of Cluny.
with Spink, London.
with Albany Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2006, lot 234, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Lonodn, Spink, English Watercolour Drawings, 1971, no. 87.
London, Albany Gallery, Autumn Exhibition of English Watercolour Drawings, 1971, no. 36.
| Artist: | David Roberts (1796 - 1864) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, United Kingdom |
| Artist: | David Roberts (1796 - 1864) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, United Kingdom |
| Address of auction |
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