View David Roberts. English. Original watercolor painting. Alcantara Bridge Toledo. Panoramic landscape painting of the bridge. Signed and dated lower right. Framed under glass. Inscribed on mat.

Orientalist paintings as artifacts of Ottoman Palestine are the focus here, complex interventions in the assumptions about the Holy Land that can be appropriated for archaeological understandings of ...

as being a painting by Bonington. Until last summer, it was believed to be the work of Scottish painter David Roberts (1796-1864). The painting even bore Roberts’ signature and the date of 1841.