Lot 28
VIEW OF THE DOME OF THE ROCK, JERUSALEM
BY UBAYD ALLAH, DATED 1892-3
Auction: 10 June 2026 from 14:00 BST
Description
gouache on paper, signed in Arabic “Ubayd Allah [A.H.] 1310' (1892-3 A.D.) in lower right (a name meaning servant of God) and inscribed lower left ‘Bayt al-Maqdis’ lower right the Arabic name for the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque site
Dimensions
28.5cm x 49cm
Provenance
Millon, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 December 2023, lot 87.
Footnote
For images of the Holy Sites, that were produced by Indian artists for pilgrims visiting Jerusalem or, Mecca and Madina, see M. Tütüncü, ‘The Chronological Development of Mecca Views’ in Khan Q. M., with Nassar., N., Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage. Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili, vol. 2, London, 2023, p.22. Perhaps the best known of these is Muhammad ‘Abdallah, a cartographer and painter from Delhi, whose panoramic view of Mecca, circa 1846, is in the Khalili Collection, London, see M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam, Masterpieces from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, London 2010, pp.260–61, no.298.