Sea of Galilee at Genezareth looking Towards Bashan - David Roberts
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A detailed topographical watercolour by David Roberts, depicting the Sea of Galilee and the hills of Bashan during his 1839 journey.
David Roberts, a Scottish painter known for his meticulous documentation of the Near East, produced this work during his extensive travels in 1839. The composition captures the expansive, arid terrain surrounding the Sea of Galilee, with the distant hills of Bashan forming a soft, atmospheric horizon. Roberts employs a restrained palette of ochre, pale blue, and muted grey to convey the heat and vastness of the region.
In the foreground, a small group of figures with a camel stands upon a rocky outcrop, providing a sense of scale against the immense geography. The settlement of Genezareth is visible along the shoreline, rendered with precise architectural detail that reflects the artist's background in scene painting for theatres. The work demonstrates his ability to balance topographical accuracy with a sense of quiet observation. Unlike many of his contemporaries who romanticised the Orient with dramatic flair, Roberts maintained a focus on the physical reality of the sites he visited.
This piece is part of the collection of studies that informed his later lithographic publications, which brought images of the Holy Land to a wide British audience. The wash technique allows for subtle gradations in the sky and water, creating a sense of depth that draws the eye across the lake. The treatment of the terrain, with its rolling slopes and sparse vegetation, remains consistent with his broader body of work from this period. By documenting these sites with such clarity, Roberts provided a visual record that was highly valued by nineteenth-century viewers interested in biblical geography and travel. The print captures the original watercolour's delicate handling of light and shadow, preserving the atmospheric quality of the scene.
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Sea of Galilee at Genezareth looking Towards Bashan - 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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