David Roberts, RA (1796-1864)

David Roberts, RA (1796-1864)
On the Prado, Madrid
Signed and dated David . Roberts. 1836. (lower right)
Watercolour heightened with white and gum arabic
30.5 x 21.5cm; 12 x 8½in

Literature:
Thomas Roscoe, The Tourist in Spain: Biscay and the Castiles, illustrated from Drawings by David Roberts, (Robert Jennings & Co, London, 1837), (frontispiece)

The present work depicts the Fountain of the Artichoke, Madrid. David Roberts made an on-the-spot sketch dated 1833 from a different viewpoint, with the observatory on the right, and there is a further version with different figures (both in private collections).

We are grateful to Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz for her assistance cataloguing the present work.