Entrance to the Temple of Isis, Philae

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DAVID ROBERTS (EDINBURGH 1796-1864 LONDON)
Entrance to the Temple of Isis, Philae
signed 'David Roberts. R.A.' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
13 1⁄2 x 21 3⁄8 in. (34.3 x 54.3 cm.)

来源

with Appleby Brothers, London, 1964.
W.B. Thomson; Christie's 17 May 1966, no. 109.
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 11 July 1977, lot 67.
with The Fine Art Society, London, 1983.
with Mathaf Gallery, London, 1983.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 June 2007, lot 263, where purchased by the present owner.

出版

F. Nightingale, Letters from Egypt A Journey on the Nile 1849-1850, selected and introduced by A. Sattin, London 1987, p.115 (in colour).

展览

London, Appleby Brothers Ltd, Exhibition of 18th and 19th Century English Watercolours, December 1964, no. 20, (as Inner Court of the Temple at Philoe).
London, Spink & Sons, British Artists in Greece, Egypt and the Middle East, part of the 1666-1966 Tercentenary Exhibition: Four Thousand Years of Art, 1966, no. 21.
London, The Fine Art Society, Victorian Painting, 1977, no. 50.
London, The Fine Art Society, Eastern Encounters Orientalist Painters of the Nineteenth Century, 1978, no. 53.

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Stefano Franceschi Specialist

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拍品专文

Roberts travelled up the Nile as far as Abu Simbel and back to Cairo between October and December 1838. He arrived at Aswan on the journey upstream on 29th October and visited Philae the following day, describing it as ‘a paradise in the midst of desolation’ (MS Eastern Journal, 30 October 1838, National Library of Scotland, Acc 7723⁄1). Returning there on 17th November, he ‘took a complete survey of this interesting island’ (ibid, 17 November 1838), and two days later made some large drawings of the colonnades and pylons commenting that the ‘brilliant and tasteful colouring of the walls and pillars still testify the exquisite taste and finish of the whole. Many of the emblematic figures upon this wall are so good that I was enabled to copy several of them, and this is the case even with the embroidery of the dresses’ (ibid, 19 November 1838).
Roberts’s view shows the massive Second Pylon of the Temple of Isis, with its colossal deeply cut figures of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, making offerings to Horus; Hathor and other deities are also represented. This forms the entrance to the inner sanctum of the temple. On the left is the mammisi (birth house). The view does not appear in Roberts’s three-volume series of lithographs, Egypt & Nubia, 1846-49.
We are grateful to Briony Llewllyn for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

Entrance to the Temple of Isis, Philae

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