1839
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Encampment of Pilgrims, Jericho is a 1839 by David Roberts, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a group of pilgrims camping near an old stone bridge at Jericho. A flock of sheep walks past their tents under a bright sky. Roberts spent years traveling the Middle East and sketched what he saw. He then painted scenes back home in Scotland, filling details from memory and travel notes. Check out another David Roberts painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
David Roberts (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and…
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