Roberts (David, RA)

here Roberts demonstrates his capacity to render architecture, landscape and the realities of daily life as he captures the timeless quality of this biblically significant, yet so small and unassuming, rural town, nestling amongst the gently rolling hills, a nomadic encampment in the wide valley just below, and a humble herdsman leading his flock of goats along the road that leads our eye in from the foreground, from the standard edition of ‘Egypt & The Holy Land’, with the title printed in the lower margin,

tinted lithograph with later hand-colouring, 385 x 525 mm. (15 1/8 x 20 3/4 in), hinged into a decorative mount,