Live Auction 6574Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer
William Wyld (London 1806-1889 Paris)
Lot 178

William Wyld (London 1806-1889 Paris)

On the Grand Canal, Venice

Closed10 July 2012

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GBP 8,125

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William Wyld (London 1806-1889 Paris)
On the Grand Canal, Venice
signed 'W Wyld' (lower right) and with inscription 'View of Byron's House/at venice/by Wyld/Purchased at Mr. Williams Sale/23th Feb 1853/VII 1/3' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
7½ x 11 in. (19 x 28 cm.)

Mr Williams; his sale, 24 February 1853 (catalogue untraced).
Douglas Thomas.
Charles A Jackson, Manchester.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1989, lot 205.
C. Thomas Toppin.

Specialist note

Byron lived at one of the Case dei Mocenigo on the Grand Canal from 1816-1819, and it was during this period that he wrote Ode on Venice in which he mourned the inevitable and tragic loss of the great city by the destructive water surrounding it:
Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls
Are level with the waters, there shall be
A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls,
A loud lament along the sweeping sea!