After David Roberts - Chapel of The Nunnery of the Most Pure Virgin at Carmona

Carmona is situated around thirty miles from Seville and Roberts produced various outdoor studies of the town and also an interior scene which was used for this lithograph. The location was the Chapel of the Nunnery of the most Pure Virgin and Roberts depicted it during the Service of the Vigils by the Holy Sisterhood. The Abbess was clearly impressed by his drawing and was probably intrigued by having a foreign artist in her convent, she presented Roberts with a rosary from the Holy Land. Today the covent is known as St Clare's.
 
Various artists, including Roberts himself, produced the lithographs for the published folio. Louis Haghe (1806-1885), the Belgian lithographer, was responsible for this work. This proved to be a successful partnership as Haghe was later chosen to create lithographs from Roberts' tour to the Holy Land and Egypt.
 
Medium: Original hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe.
 
Plate 15.
 
Inscribed lower left 'The Chapel of The Nunnery of the Most Pure Virgin at Carmona', 30.5 x 42 cm, framed.
 
Bibliography:
Katherine Sim. David Roberts R.A. 1796-1864: A Biography. Quartet Books: London, 1984.