Caiaphas Looking Towards Mount Carmel - David Roberts
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A detailed lithograph by David Roberts depicting the coastal view of Caiaphas and Mount Carmel, featuring a shipwreck on the shore at sunset.
This lithograph by David Roberts captures the coastal scenery of the Levant during his extensive travels through the Near East in 1839. The composition focuses on the shoreline near Caiaphas, with the prominent silhouette of Mount Carmel rising in the distance. In the foreground, the skeletal remains of a shipwreck emerge from the surf, providing a stark contrast to the calm, atmospheric light of the setting sun.
Roberts was a highly skilled draughtsman, and his work is noted for its precision in documenting architectural and geographical features. The scene includes small figures of travellers and their horses on the beach, which serve to provide a sense of scale against the vast horizon. The muted colour palette, dominated by soft ochres, greys, and pale blues, reflects the specific quality of light found in the Mediterranean region.
This print is part of the larger collection titled 'The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia', which was published in the mid-nineteenth century. These works were instrumental in shaping the European perception of the Middle East during the Victorian era. Roberts employed a technique that balanced topographical accuracy with a romantic sensibility, ensuring that the viewer could appreciate both the physical reality of the location and the mood of the environment. The attention to the texture of the sand, the weathered wood of the wreck, and the gentle ripples of the water demonstrates his technical proficiency with the lithographic medium. This piece offers a quiet, observational perspective on a region that was then becoming a subject of intense interest for Western travellers and scholars alike.
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Caiaphas Looking Towards Mount Carmel - David Roberts
Artist Biography
David Roberts
In 1838 he sailed for Egypt and spent the next two years travelling through the Middle East, filling sketchbooks with drawings of temples, mosques, ruins and desert landscapes that almost no British artist had recorded before. To enter the mosques he had to shave off his sideburns, leave his hog-hair brushes behind (the pig being unclean), and wear traditional Arab clothing while he worked. He was one of the first Europeans allowed to paint inside a mosque.
The sketches became The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia, a series of 247 lithograph plates produced in collaboration with the printer Louis Haghe between 1842 and 1849. He funded the project through advance subscriptions, soliciting them personally. Queen Victoria was subscriber number one. Her complete set is still in the Royal Collection.
The lithographs gave Europeans their first detailed visual record of the ancient Near East. They were bought as art, used as reference by scholars, and shaped the Western imagination of Egypt and Palestine for the rest of the century.
His personal life was less composed. His wife Margaret became an alcoholic and in 1831 he sent her back to Scotland to be cared for by friends. He raised their daughter Christine largely alone. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1841, a considerable achievement for a man who had started painting houses, and worked steadily until his death in 1864.
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