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Fortress of the Alhambra

David Roberts, 1796–1864; born Stockbridge, Scotland; died London, UK

x1970-129

Roberts had been a set designer for the London stage when he abandoned the theater in 1830 to paint topographical views of architectural monuments. Portfolios depicting picturesque views of architectural sites throughout Europe and the Near East were popular with Victorian armchair travelers, and Roberts regularly contributed drawings made on location to such enterprises. This theatrical view of the fourteenth-century Moorish fortress of Alhambra was published as a lithograph in his portfolio Sketches of Spain in 1837.

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Object Number

x1970-129

Maker

David Roberts

Medium

Watercolor with touches of gouache over graphite

Dates

1833

Dimensions

56.2 x 40.9 cm (22 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Spencer

Place Depicted

Europe, Spain, Andalusia, Granada, Alhambra

Type

drawings, watercolors

Subject

women, dogs, figures (representations), trees, men, fortifications, dwellings

Materials

watercolor, gouache, graphite, wove paper

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4603399

James Ballantine, The life of David Roberts R.A.: compiled from his journals and other sources, (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1866).

2964 1866

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774539

"Acquisitions 1970", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 30, no. 1 (1971): p. 22-30., p. 26

3440 1971

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785792009

Antonio Gamiz Gordo, "Las vistas de Espana del viajero David Roberts, pintor de paisajes y arquitecturas, hacia 1833", EGA (Valencia, Spain) 15, no. 15 (2010): p. 54-65., p. 61 (illus.)

5661 2010