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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
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- Place of Birth: Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, Scotland
- Place of Death: London, England
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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
- Lierre: Interior of Saint-Gommaire
- England
- 1850
- P258
- West Gallery II
- Bookmarkable URLThis painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850. Lierre is ten miles south-east of Antwerp. Roberts depicts the nave of the church of Saint-Gommaire which was built 1425-1557. The sixteenth-century rood loft across the nave had been restored shortly before 1850. Roberts, an enthusiastic traveller, paid at least five visits to Belgium between c.1826 and 1861. Church interiors of this kind derive ultimately from seventeenth-century Dutch painting (see Emanuel de Witte, 'Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft', P254).
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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
- Granada: the Chapel of Ferdinand and Isabella
- England
- 1838
- P587
- East Galleries III Staircase
- Bookmarkable URLThe Capilla Real, built in 1506-17, is on the south side of Granada Cathedral. It contains several tombs, including those of Ferdinand and Isabella, the ‘Catholic Kings’ who reconquered Granada from the Moors in 1481-92. Roberts, an enthusiastic traveller, was in Spain between December 1832 and August 1833, including three weeks in Granada.
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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
- Santiago: the Cathedral from the south-west
- England
- 1837
- P659
- Not on display
- Bookmarkable URLSantiago de Compostela in Galicia owes its importance chiefly to an early Christian tomb, traditionally identified as that of Saint James the Greater, which has attracted pilgrims since the 10th century. The Cathedral was principally built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but the west front, shown in Roberts’s watercolour, was built in 1738-50 and the tall tower on the south side, the Torre de la Trinidad, dates largely from 1680. Roberts did not visit Santiago during his visit to Spain in 1832-3, and this watercolour is based on a drawing made in 1832 by the traveller and author Richard Ford (1796-1858).
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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
- Baalbec: the Temple of Jupiter
- 1842
- P680
- Not on display
- Bookmarkable URLThe Temple of Jupiter at Baalbec, in Lebanon, was probably begun in the early 1st century A.D. It was visited by Roberts on 2-8 May 1839. On 4 May he wrote in his journal: ‘It would be difficult to convey even in drawing any idea of this magnificent ruin, its beauty of form, the exquisite richness of its decoration or the vast magnitude of its dimensions.’ This is not one of Roberts's watercolours that were subsequently engraved. It is, however, closely related to an oil painting, also of 1842, showing a similar composition which was sold at Sotheby's London, 24 November 1976, lot 304.
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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
- Mainz: the Cathedral from the south-west
- 1832
- P689
- Not on display
- Bookmarkable URLThe cathedral of the city of Mainz, on the left bank of the Rhine, was consecrated on 4 July 1239, though building work on the present structure had begun in the eleventh century and there have been innumerable subsequent additions and alterations. This watercolour was probably based on studies made by Roberts during a tour of western Germany in the summer of 1830. It is entirely characteritic of many British watercolour views of native and Continental cities produced in the early nineteenth century.
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- David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
- Tetuan: The Great Square
- 1837
- P697
- Not on display
- Bookmarkable URLTetuan, Morocco, is about twenty-five miles south of the Straits of Gibraltar. Roberts visited Morocco in April 1833 during his trip to Spain (1832-3). An engraving after this watercolour identified the subject as the ‘Great Square of Tetuan from the Jew’s Town during the celebration of the marriage of the son of the Governor Ash-Ash in April 1833’. Tetuan was the seat of the Governor of Spanish Morocco. The composition may owe something to Turner's oil painting 'Juliet and her Nurse' (1836; private collection).
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