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

Entrance to the Third Pyramid

Circle of David Roberts
1796-1864

Entrance to the Third Pyramid

1830s
8 3/8 x 6 inches (212 x 153 mm)
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper.
2017.223

Thaw Collection.

Notes
Possibly Francis Arundale.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in brown ink at lower right, "David Roberts". Inscribed by the artist on the verso in graphite at center, "Entrance to the third pyramid".
Watermark: [J Wh]atman / [Turk]ey Mill, fragment.
Associated names
Gibbs, Christopher, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 339, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 29.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department