Travellers seated on the road to Rome, St Peter's beyond

Name: John White Abbott (Exeter 1763-1851)
Brand: Travellers seated on the road to Rome, St Peter's beyond
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John White Abbott (Exeter 1763-1851)

Travellers seated on the road to Rome, St Peter's beyond

Price Realised GBP 5,625

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John White Abbott (Exeter 1763-1851)
Travellers seated on the road to Rome, St Peter's beyond
signed with initials and dated 'JWA/ 1807' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour on paper
15¹⁄₄ x 19¹⁄₄ in. (38.8 x 48.9 cm.)

The artist, and by descent to
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 March 2002, lot 154, where purchased for the present collection.

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Lot Essay

This unusual drawing appears to relate to a sheet by the Swiss artist Franz Kaisermann (1765-1833), who was a pupil of Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros. Dated 1803, his Rome from the Villa Madama, with St. Peter's seen through trees to the right, and the Tiber to the left depicts a very similar view through the trees towards Rome, with a small group of travellers in the foreground. Kaisermann made at least two later known versions of the subject, and it is very possible that one ended up in Devon where it was seen by White Abbott.
We are grateful to Dr Richard Stephens for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.