Petra
Anton Schranz (Ochsenhausen, Austria 1769 - Malta 1839)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1841 - 1842
Materials
Paper, Watercolour paint
Measurements
333 x 445 mm; 740 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Austria
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499376.22
Summary
One of a set of landscapes; watercolour on paper. A desert scene with red coloured rocks in the foreground and framing the scene with bushes spread among the rocks. Three figures are seated on the rocks to the right, two holding sticks and in the centre right of the scene is a tower with a rectangular opening rising from the rocks. Mounted within a bound portfolio.
Provenance
Thomas Legh (1792-1857) travelled extensively in the Middle East and Egypt in the early 19th century. He produced his own drawings of this but they did not survive. In 1841 Viscount Castlereagh undertook a similar journey and he employed Anton Schranz to produce a record of his travels. He had them bound into a series of portfolios, this set is the fourth portfolio.
Marks and inscriptions
Petra / (hand-written pencil on mount, below image)
Makers and roles
Anton Schranz (Ochsenhausen, Austria 1769 - Malta 1839), artist