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Palestine / Israel: Crypt of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, painted by David Roberts c.1840.

Palestine / Israel: Crypt of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, painted by David Roberts c.1840.

David Roberts RA (1796-1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). This work, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.