Art, literature & history
Oriental Scene
1838
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Watercolor over traces of graphite on cardboard
- Dimensions
- sheet: 12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in. (31 x 23 cm)
- Collection no.
- 64.52
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
David Roberts. Oriental Scene. David Roberts; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1964. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Oriental Scene — David Roberts. 1838.
Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite on cardboard. Dimensions: sheet: 12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in. (31 x 23 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1964.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.