JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (IRTHINGTON, CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)
Lot 174

JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (IRTHINGTON, CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)

A bridge over the river Trient, near Chamonix, on the border of France and Switzerland

Closed24 March 2022

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GBP 3,024

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JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (IRTHINGTON, CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)
A bridge over the river Trient, near Chamonix, on the border of France and Switzerland
pencil and watercolour on paper
12 x 17 1⁄4 in. (30.5 x 43.8 cm.)

with Agnew's, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 May 2001, lot 1090.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 20 May 2015, lot 597.

Specialist note

Smith's Swiss views appear to date from his second journey on the Continent, when he accompanied Francis Towne (1740-1816) to Italy in 1780 and returned through Switzerland in 1781.