The Dome of the Rock, from the Mount of Olives
1922
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1922
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Dome of the Rock, from the Mount of Olives is a 1922 watercolor by George Henry Benton Fletcher, a Orientalism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet hillside with a few trees and rocks in the front. Behind them sits a large dome-shaped building, surrounded by smaller towers. The whole scene is drawn in soft black lines on light paper. The artist focused on the shapes of trees and the dome’s smooth curves. The dome looks distant, almost floating above the rougher ground below. If you like this kind of careful drawing, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour drawing of the Dome of the Rock, executed from the Mount of Olives by George Henry Benton Fletcher in 1922, was sold at Sotheby's on January 25, 1968 for £10 according to Rodney Searight's records.
Read the full account in the museum source.
George Henry Benton Fletcher painted watercolours of ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern sites in the early 1900s.
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