Cleveland Museum of Art
Descent into the Plain of Granada
David RobertsLinkedCulture matchlcp-d0071667b7a2
- Date
- 1834
- Medium
- watercolor with gouache, scratch-away, and graphite
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 119728
What the image shows
A group of camels and riders traverses a rugged mountain path.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Later celebrated for his topographical landscapes of the Middle East, David Roberts’s first extended trip abroad was in 1832 when he traveled through France to Spain over a period of 10 months. This watercolor records a scene from Roberts’s journey from Madrid to Andalusia. He described the trip in a letter to his sister: "I jogged on a considerable part of the way on foot, happy and contented. Granada is in the most beautiful situation that can be imagined. It lies at the foot of a ridge of high mountains, called the Sierra Nevada, or the Mountains of Snow." Replete with burdened mules, a lone figure on foot, and sun-drenched mountains with a view of Granada in the distance, this watercolor vividly illustrates the artist’s recollections. This drawing was reproduced as a wood engraving in Roscoe's first volume, The Tourist in Spain: Granada .
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- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Provenance
- 1912: (sale, Victor G. Fischer Company Collection, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19, 1912, no. 656) | ?-1931: James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee | 1931-1940: Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through the Estate of James Parmelee | 1940-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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