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View of Siena from the walls of Fort Santa Barbara

Maker

(artist)
1780-1822

Title

View of Siena from the walls of Fort Santa Barbara

Date of Production

(circa) 1795

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 41.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1973.WF.4768

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1973

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Welbore St. Claire Baddeley (1856-1945); purchased jointly by the Albany and Manning Galleries (London) in 1973, as part of an album; purchased there via the Witt Fund 1973

Exhibition History

Thomas Smith: sketches in Italy and Switzerland, Albany and Manning Galleries, London, 1973

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite, circled: “16x22”; upper right, graphite: “A M 1010 / 59.”; lower right, brown ink, cut off at right edge: “Siena, taken from / castle walls, near the / Promenade di Nizz[...]”. Separate paper, now glued to mount with drawing: first line in graphite, second in brown ink: “vineyard / Sienna, from the castle walls”.

Collector's mark: none.

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