Name: JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)
Brand: In the Roman Campagna
Price: 2400.00 GBP
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JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)
In the Roman Campagna
signed, inscribed and dated 'In the Campagna of Rome/ J. Smith. 1793' (verso)
pencil and watercolour on paper
7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm.)

Monro family.

London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, cat. 20, 1978, p. 34.
London, Martyn Gregory, British and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 70.

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Smith travelled through Italy from 1776 to 1781, and returned to England with a large number of sketches which he would use as the basis for exhibition watercolours for years to come. The present watercolour is such a sheet, worked up in England from his earlier sketches.