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Stadthaus, Luxembourg

Maker

(artist)
1812-1908

Title

Date of Production

(August 29) 1867

Medium

graphite on wove paper, with an inlaid grey border

Dimensions

Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 36.8 cm

Accession Number

D.2011.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Lowell Libson, gift, 31.3.2011

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Gift of Lowell Libson in memory of William Clarke

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Watercolourist and aquatint engraver, William Callow travelled annually throughout Britain and the Continent continually sketching landscape and architecture. The hundreds of rapid sketches that he produced on the spot served as inspiration for finished watercolours worked up in his studio. In the 1830s he shared a studio in Paris with Thomas Shotter Boys. Both artists enjoyed depicting old towns, timbered houses and picturesque street scenes, as evident from the subject of the present sketch. It was executed in Luxembourg in 1867, and demonstrates the artist’s firm but fluid style of drawing in pencil, paying particular attention to the texture and surface decoration of the ancient buildings. Callow’s drawing style is strongly influenced by that of both Boys and Boys’ teacher, Richard Parkes Bonington.

Provenance

Michael Ingram (1917-2005); acquired from his heirs by Lowell Libson Ltd. (London), 2011; Gift from Lowell Libson in memory of William Clarke, March 2011

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none in the drawing. Border: Verso, lower right corner, blindstamped: “INGRES” flanked by two ovals containing “ANA”.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, described and dated: “Stadthaus. Luxembourg / Aug 29: 1867”. Verso: upper left: graphite inscription just visible under border but inaccessible; lower right, graphite, erased: “25/-”.

Collector's mark: none.

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