King Ahab and Jezebel
from Scenes from the First Book of Kings

  King Ahab and Jezebel    from    Scenes from the First Book of Kings

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales. Courtesy: Cardiff Castle (Cardiff Council)

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about 1875
Series of scenes around the walls of the roof garden relating events from I Kings 18-19.

support: on ceramic tile
technique: painting

designer: Horatio Walter Lonsdale
firm/studio: W. B. Simpson & Sons

Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
Bute Tower roof garden

Courtesy Cardiff Castle (Cardiff Council)




 

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Further reading

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 209.




  King Ahab and Jezebel    from    Scenes from the First Book of Kings

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales. Courtesy: Cardiff Castle (Cardiff Council)


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