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Salerno

Maker

(artist)
1812-1908

Title

Salerno

Date of Production

12 May 1879

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.8 cm
Width: 25.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.10

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

purchased by Colnaghi (London) between 6 and 14 December 1961 (based on inv. no. on verso, lower right); William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner
, Harrogate, 1968

English water-colour exhibition, Walker's Galleries, London, 1927

Literature

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 74

Reynolds, Jan, William Callow R.W.S., London / B T Batsford Ltd. 1980
p. 169
Inventory no. 6

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 102
ill. on p. 244

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown wash: "W Callow"; lower right corner, graphite, dated: "Salerno / May 12/79". Verso: lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: "D25756".

Collector's mark: none.

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