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

A bull fight, Seville

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David Roberts, R.A. (1796-1864)
A bull fight, Seville
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on buff paper
11.3/8 x 16.1/8 in. (28.8 x 40.9 cm.)

Sale room notice

The present watercolour was published as a lithograph by Louis Haghe for Picturesque Sketches in Spain, published by Hodgson & Graves, 1837, pl. 26 and is mentioned in H. Guiterman and B. Llwellyn, David Roberts, London, 1986, p. 110, footnote 102.

Lot Essay

A larger, more finished watercolour of a bull fight in Seville, signed and dated 1835 is in the Eton College Collection. It was engraved by James B. Allen for Jennings' A tourist in Spain and Morocco, Landscape Manual, 1835-1838.

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