Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 702

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
DAVID ROBERTS
(Edinburgh 1796-1864 London)
Interior of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper mounted on card stock, 1839. 328x475 mm; 13x19 inches. Signed and inscribed "Jerusalem April 10, 1839" in pencil, lower left recto.

Provenance: Agnew's, London; acquired Davis Galleries, New York, 1973, with a copy of the original receipt; Robert and Helen Mandelbaum, New York; thence by descent, private collection, New York; with Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York, with the label.

Exhibited: "Edward Lear and David Roberts," Davis Galleries, New York, March 1968, catalogue number 12; "19th Century British Watercolors and Drawings," Davis Galleries, New York, November-December 1972, catalogue number 43; "British Art from the Collection of Robert and Helen Mandelbaum," Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, October 6-29, 1978 and Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, November 10-December 20, 1978.