Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

View of Karnak, Egypt

David Roberts
1796-1864

View of Karnak, Egypt

1838
12 13/16 x 19 1/16 inches (325 x 485 mm)
Watercolor, and opaque watercolor over graphite, on light brown wove paper.
1977.25

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Study for the lithograph executed by Louis Haghe, "General View of Karnak Looking Towards Babǹ-el-Molook", no. 32 in Roberts' and William Brockedon's "Egypt and Nubia", London, II, 1849.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left in pen and black ink, "David Roberts R.A. 1838".
Associated names
Ingram, Bruce, Sir, former owner.
Spector, Stephen, 1946- former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 289.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department