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Jerusalem and Valley Jehoshaphat Hill Evil Counsel
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Hill of Evil Counsel
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Valley of Jehoshaphat
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<p>Seddon and his friend Holman Hunt journeyed to the Holy Land in 1854, to bring greater authenticity, spiritual and topographical, to their religious works. This view, painted south of Jerusalem, shows the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane, the site of Christ’s anguish before the Crucifixion. The valley of Jehoshaphat was also believed to be where the Last Judgement would take place. Unlike John Martin’s apocalyptic visions, displayed nearby, Seddon represents the site in painstaking, sun-lit detail, paralleling the art critic John Ruskin’s remarks that ‘in following the steps of nature’, artists were ‘tracing the finger of God.’</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
10 December 2001 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
10 December 2001 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
2001-12-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-12-10
British Artists and the Near East
Collection based display
12 February 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
12 February 2004 – 3 May 2004
2004-05-03
2004-02-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
11 June 2004 – 5 September 2004
2004-09-05
2004-06-11
Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin, Germany)
28 September 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
2004-09-28
Fundació “la Caixa” (Madrid, Spain)
2004-02-12
Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature
Exhibition
12 May 2006 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
12 May 2007
2007-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-05-12
Orientalism
Collection based display
4 February 2008 – 31 May 2009
2009-05-31
7 February 2008 – 28 April 2008
2008-04-28
2008-02-07
Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, USA)
http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp
4 June 2008 – 31 August 2008
2008-08-31
2008-06-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
26 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-09-26
Pera Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)
18 February 2009 – 30 April 2009
2009-04-30
2009-02-18
Sharjah Art Museum (Sharjah, UAE)
2008-02-04
The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting
Loan-out
7 February 2008 – 30 April 2009
2009-04-30
7 February 2008 – 28 April 2008
2008-04-28
2008-02-07
Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, USA)
http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp
26 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
2009-01-04
2008-09-26
Pera Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)
18 February 2009 – 30 April 2009
2009-04-30
2009-02-18
Sharjah Art Museum (Sharjah, UAE)
2008-02-07
British Orientalist Painting
Exhibition
18 August 2009 – 14 November 2010
2010-11-14
18 August 2009 – 14 November 2010
2010-11-14
2009-08-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-18
Sublime
Collection based display
7 March 2012 – 8 July 2012
2012-07-08
7 March 2012 – 8 July 2012
2012-07-08
2012-03-07
Musee d’art et d’histoire du judaisme (Paris, France)
2012-03-07
Orientalism and the Jews
Loan-out
12 September 2012 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
12 September 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-09-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 February 2013 – 19 May 2013
2013-05-19
2013-02-17
National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA)
10 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2012-09-12
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Exhibition
17 February 2013 – 31 August 2014
2014-08-31
17 February 2013 – 19 May 2013
2013-05-19
2013-02-17
National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA)
10 June 2013 – 13 October 2013
2013-10-13
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2013-02-17
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Loan-out
26 March 2015 – 27 May 2020
2020-05-27
26 March 2015 – 21 June 2015
2015-06-21
2015-03-26
Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City, Mexico)
18 July 2015 – 18 October 2015
2015-10-18
2015-07-18
Pinacoteca do Estado (São Paulo, Brazil)
2015-03-26
British Landscape
Tate partnerships & programmes
11 May 2016 – 25 September 2016
2016-09-25
11 May 2016 – 25 September 2016
2016-09-25
2016-05-11
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2016-05-11
Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern age
Exhibition
14 December 2018 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
14 December 2018 – 28 April 2019
2019-04-28
2018-12-14
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
19 June 2019 – 6 October 2019
2019-10-06
2019-06-19
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
13 May 2021 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
2021-05-13
Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
2018-12-14
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Tate partnerships & programmes
Jerusalem and the Valley of Jehoshaphat from the Hill of Evil Counsel
frame: 870 × 1030 × 100 mm
support: 673 × 832 mm
Presented by subscribers 1857
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<p>Thomas Seddon travelled to the Middle East in 1854. The British Empire and the growth of travel and trade opened the world to Victorian tourists. Like other Europeans, he saw the region as an authentic setting for Biblical subjects. This valley south of Jerusalem shows the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane, where Seddon felt the presence of Jesus who had ’walked the same paths’. Seddon camped on the hill for 120 days painting the scene. He was struck by the beauty of the light and observed an intricate network of blue shadows.</p>
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