Lot 98 · Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
The ravine, Petra, the Holy Land
David Roberts · pencil and watercolour heightened with white, with gum arabic on grey-blue paper
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- Estimate
- £80,000–£120,000 hammer ≈ $103,302–$154,953
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours, London · 5 July 2017
- Dimensions
- 21 x 13 3/8 in. (53.3 x 34 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3908580
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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David Roberts, The ravine, Petra, the Holy Land. Christie's, 5 Jul 2017, lot 98. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3908580.
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David Roberts, The ravine, Petra, the Holy Land. Christie's, 5 Jul 2017, lot 98. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3908580.
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| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study for the tomb of the humanist Niccolò Perotti | Umbrian School, circa 1480 | £30,000–£40,000 | |
| The Massacre of the Innocents ( recto ); Study of a head ( verso ) | Timoteo Viti | £25,000–£35,000 | |
| The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child with a monk behind | Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli | £12,000–£18,000 | |
| Five studies of the head of Giuliano de' Medici, after Michelangelo | Morandini, Called Il Poppi, Francesco | £5,000–£7,000 | |
| Study of a seated man | Giovanni Battista Piranesi | £6,000–£8,000 | |
| Saint Anthony of Padua and the Christ Child, flanked by an Angel and putti | Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo | £8,000–£12,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.