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View of the Villa Pescatore from Villa Muti, Piombino

Maker

Lady Elizabeth Susan Percy (artist)
1782-1847

Title

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

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

Lady Susan Elizabeth Percy (1782-1847), the daughter of the 1st Earl of Beverly, was a talented amateur draughtswoman. She first travelled to Italy at the age of 20; over 40 sketches from this trip are now held in the Ashby collection in the Vatican Museums. She spent much of her life in Italy and, as a member of the British expatriate community in Rome, befriended Edward Lear and became his patron. Although dismissed by Huon Mallalieu in the Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists as ‘a mirror of the topographical fashions of her time, beginning as an imitator of Hearne, by way of Girtin and Sir G[eorge] Beaumont, as an imitator of Leitch and Lear’, the quality of her work is undisputed.

This drawing is an ambitious panoramic view of a landscape in the Roman campagna. The handling is assured and speaks to Lady Percy’s considerable experience at this date, as well as her familiarity with her subject.

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

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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