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The Cid and the Five Moorish Kings

Artist: Lockhart, William Ewart, RSA · 1846-1900

The Cid and the Five Moorish Kings

This sketch relates to the finished painting that was exhibited at the RSA in 1882, catalogue number 196 "The Cid and the Five Moorish Kings- vide…

This sketch relates to the finished painting that was exhibited at the RSA in 1882, catalogue number 196 "The Cid and the Five Moorish Kings- vide Lockhart's Spanish Ballads". A line engraving of the painting is reproduced on page 29 of The Royal Scottish Academy Notes 1882 and on page 50 of Grosvenor Notes 1881 as it was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881.

The large finished oil painting was purchased by a John Keiller of Dundee for £2,000 and a watercolour version of the finished painting, dated 1884, is in the collection of Perth Museum & Art Gallery.

See the catalogue "By Royal Command, William Ewart Lockhart RSA, RSW" The Friends of Annandale and Eskdale Museums, 1998, page 7 for references to these other versions and also page 13 for a colour reproduction of the watercolour version.

The Perth watercolour is also reproduced as a colour plate (fig, 2) on page 9 of the catalogue 'Visions of the Borders, the Watercolours of Tom Scott RSA' (Scottish Borders Council Museums and Gallery Service, 2004)