Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada
| Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada | |
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| Artist | David Roberts |
| Year | 1834 |
| Type | Oil on panel, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 44.4 cm × 59.4 cm (17.5 in × 23.4 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada is an 1834 oil painting by the British artist David Roberts.[1] A cityscape it features a view on the River Darro in Granada in the old Moorish medieval section of the city.[2] Roberts, who had made his reputation in the 1820s as a scenic designer for the London theatres, had visited Spain the previous year and spent three weeks in Granada.[3]
The work was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition in London in 1835 where it was described by the critic of The Athenaeum as "an exquisite thing".[3] It was donated to the nation in 1857 by the art collector John Sheepshanks and is today in the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Boone p.29
- ^ Holland p.82
- ^ a b "Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada | Roberts, David (RA) | V&A Explore The Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
- ^ "Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada". Art UK. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
Bibliography
[edit]- Boone, Mary Elizabeth. Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914. Yale University Press, 2007.
- Holland, Robert. The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination. Yale University Press, 2018.
- Sim, Katherine. David Roberts R.A., 1796–1864: A Biography. Quartet Books, 1984.
- Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press, 2006.
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