David Roberts, R.A. (1796-1864)

Fragments of the Great Colossi at the Memnonium, Thebes

细节

David Roberts, R.A. (1796-1864)
Fragments of the Great Colossi at the Memnonium, Thebes
signed and dated 'David Roberts, R.A. 18..' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white on buff paper
13 3/8 x 19½in. (34 x 49.5cm.)

来源

H.S. Bicknell; Christie's London, 7 Apr. 1881, lot 140 (105gns. to Taylor).
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 27 May 1918, with 'Jerusalem', lot 28 (21gns. to Sampson).
W. Lawson Peacock, Christie's London, 6 Feb. 1925, lot 38 (10½gns. to Brocklebank).
R. Brocklebank.
Sir Edmund Brocklebank and thence by descent.

展览

London, International Exhibition, 1874, no.283 as 'Fragments of the Great Colossus at the Memnonium, Thebes.

刻印

L. Haghe, lithograph, 1849, for D. Roberts, Egypt and Nubia, 1846-9, Vol.II, pl.4.

拍品专文

The original sketch by Roberts, dated 5 December 1838, was sold at Sotheby's, 15 March 1990, lot 102, illustrated in colour; there are fewer figures and a building obscures the left-hand side of the composition. The Memnonium or Ramesseum is the mortuary chapel of Ramesses II (1304-1237 B.C.) and lies on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The front and back walls of the second court were lined with pillars in the form of Ramesses as Osiris and against the north-west wall were two giant seated statues of the King in black granite, now lying in fragments on the ground. Roberts also did a general view of the Memnomium with a shaft of lightning (Egypt and Nubia, Vol.II, 1846-9, pl.8).
We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.