Attributed to David Roberts
1796-1864
An Entranceway at Karnak
1864
19 15/16 x 14 1/8 inches (507 x 358 mm)
Watercolor, brush and brown ink, over black chalk with scraping, on cream-colored wove paper.
1977.24
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor.
Notes
Watermark: fragment with letter N.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower center in pen and black ink, "David Roberts. R.A. 1864".
Associated names
Spector, Stephen, 1946-, former owner.
Astor, Vincent, Mrs., donor.
Astor, Vincent, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 288.
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Century Drawings
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