1839
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Fountain of Siloam, Valley of Jehoshaphat is a 1839 by David Roberts, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a person standing at the entrance of a dark, narrow cave. They’re dressed in simple clothes with a red hat and are holding something small, maybe a bundle. The cave mouth is framed by rough stone walls and steps leading up to it, with light barely reaching inside. The artist wrote the title in the corner: *Fountain of Siloam, Valley of Jehoshaphat*. This suggests the scene might be tied to a real place from history or religion. Next, look up Romanticism to see how this style often blended real places with imagination.
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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