Description
Inscribed ' drawn by David Roberts from a sketch by Sir David Wilkie 3 April 1841', watercolour
Dimensions
19cm x 26.5cm(7.5in x 10.5cm
Footnote
Provenance:Stirling Maxwell Collection, Pollok House
Note:David Roberts was one of several artists who encouraged Wilkie to visit the Holy Land in 1841 and it was on the trip home that Wilkie died from a fever caught on his travels. A watercolour of the Holy Nativity Bethlehem of the same date was included in Christie's sale of Wilkie's Estate on April 22nd 1842, no.458. It was bought by the well known Edinburgh printer Robert Cadell and it is not perhaps too fanciful to suggest that it was he who commissioned Roberts' watercolour possibly for subsequent publication.