Charles(?) Whitehead. The Western Wall.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

British, 19th century

Watercolor on paper. Signed in pencil “‘(?) Whitehead” lower left. Penciled on verso: “Mrs.(?) Whitehead, see Finn’s Diary 185(?)”

Provenance: From the Collection of the British Consul to Jerusalem, Hon. James Finn (thereafter by family descent). The English philo-Semite, James Finn (1806-72), served as British Consul in Jerusalem from 1845 to 1862. Both he, alongside his wife Elizabeth Finn, greatly assisted the Jews of the Holy Land and often protected them from the often unreasonably oppressive Ottoman authorities. (See EJ Vol. VI, col. 1300)