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William Callow, R.W.S. (Greenwich 1812-1908 Great Missenden)
Lot 217

William Callow, R.W.S. (Greenwich 1812-1908 Great Missenden)

A canal, Venice

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 7,500

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William Callow, R.W.S. (Greenwich 1812-1908 Great Missenden)
A canal, Venice
signed and dated 'Wm Callow/ 1877 (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with bodycolour on oatmeal paper
18 x 13 7/8 in. (45.7 x 35.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 17 July 1989, lot 11.

Specialist note

Callow first visited Venice in 1840, and returned several times until 1882. He notes: 'Our tour in the following year, 1877, was once more to lovely Venice, where I never grew tired of sketching its glorious buildings, and where we we welcomed by our old gondolier, Jacomo’ (W. Callow, William Callow – an Autobiography, 1908, p. 141).