Banks of the Jordan
Drawing
1838 (drawn)
1838 (drawn)
| Artist/Maker |
Drawing, `Banks of the Jordan', about 1841, Attributed to David Roberts RA
Object details
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| Title | Banks of the Jordan (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and brown ink heightened with white, on tracing paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, `Banks of the Jordan', about 1841, Attributed to David Roberts RA |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt.fr. Alistair Mathews, Nov. 1965 £12-10[shillings]'. |
| Historical context | Apparently a sketch made in connection with the lithography of The Immersion of the Pilgrims in the Jordan, [Pl.4] in Roberts, Holy Land, 1842-9, Vol.II, (1855 edn., Vol.II, Pl.48). It is possible that it represents an intermediary stage between Roberts's on-the-spot sketch and the final watercolour, redrawn for the lithograph: see H. Guiterman, `David Roberts R.A. (1796-1864)', The Old Water-Colour Society's Club, Vol.59, 1985 & Vol.60, 1986. Alternatively it could represent a later stage in the preparatory process; cf. Barbican Art Gallery, David Roberts, 1986 (182). |
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| Bibliographic reference | Searight, Rodney. The Middle East : watercolours and drawings by British and foreign artists and travellers, 1750-1900, from the collection of Rodney Searight, Esq. London, 1971 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.884 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2008 |
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