View of Siena from the walls of Fort Santa Barbara
Maker
(artist)
1780-1822
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
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
Keywords
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.
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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