Tiberias, Lower Galilee, Israel
Anton Schranz (Ochsenhausen, Austria 1769 - Malta 1839)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1841 - 1842
Materials
Paper, Watercolour paint
Measurements
336 x 498 mm; 735 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Austria
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499377.8
Summary
One of a set of landscapes; watercolour on paper. A landscape with red coloured ground in the foreground and a large shrub to the right. Sloping ground on the left dotted with shrubs and behind this, the top of a wall with turrets is visible. The wall leads down to a city situated on the bank of a lake in the middle distance. Two figures are in the foreground, one standing and one reclining near to a group of sheep. The city is surrounded on the right by land and dominated by a range of mountains beyond. 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 fifth portfolio.
Marks and inscriptions
Tiberias / No 35 / (hand-written pencil on mount, top left)
Makers and roles
Anton Schranz (Ochsenhausen, Austria 1769 - Malta 1839), artist