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View of the Villa Pescatore from Villa Muti, Piombino

Maker

Lady Elizabeth Susan Percy (artist)
1782-1847

Title

View of the Villa Pescatore from Villa Muti, Piombino

Date of Production

14/06/1833

Medium

graphite, white chalk and watercolour on grey wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 19 cm
Width: 46 cm

Accession Number

D.2022.ST.23

Mode of Acquisition

The Spooner Charitable Trust, gift, 2022
The Spooner Charitable Trust, gift, 2022

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Label Text

This panoramic view of the Tuscan countryside is one of Lady Elizabeth Susan Percy’s most impressive works. Using the pale grey of the paper as a midtone, she skilfully used white chalk and sparse touches of watercolour to conjure the still, hazy atmosphere of a day in late spring.

Percy spent much of her life in Europe, primarily in Italy. The daughter of the earl of Beverley, she pursued her art as a member of the British expatriate community in Rome, where she also supported other artists, including Edward Lear.

Provenance

Thomas Agnew, London, 1952 or later; purchased by Algernon Percy, 2006; sold by him through Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London, to the Spooner Trust, 2022

Exhibition History

A View of One's Own, Landscapes by British Women Artists, 1760-1860, Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/01/2026-20/05/2026

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Recto: lower right edge, mix of grey and brown inks: Ville [sic] Pescatore From Villa Muti Piombino / Sora June 14 1833 Pallavicini [From Villa Muti and the date written in brown ink, the rest in grey ink]. Verso: upper left, graphite, circled: 4418.

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Detached from a former mount and now kept in the object file: printed in black: Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd. / No 39035 / BY APPOINTMENT / TO HIS LATE MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI / FNE ART PUBLISHERS THOS. AGNEW / & SONS LTD. LONDON / LONDON, / 43 OLD BOND STREET, / PICCADILLY, W1X4BA.

Label: Detached from a former mount: Recto: from a sale or exhibition catalogue: 225 ELIZABETH SUSAN PERCY (fl. c. 1830) / Villa Pescatore from Villa Muti, Piombino / 16 3/4 by 17 3/4 in. (17.2 x 45.1 cm.) / Inscribed and dated June 14, 1833; Verso: abraded from being adhered onto former mount: DAVID COX, JR. (1809-1885) / Welsh Mountain Pass / [...] by 15 1/4 in. (18.5 by 38.5 cm).

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