Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (IRTHINGTON, CUMBRIA 1749-1831 LONDON)
Lot 134

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

The new road over the Pontine Marshes, near Rome

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 3,000–5,000

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JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (IRTHINGTON, CUMBRIA 1749-1831 LONDON)
The new road over the Pontine Marshes, near Rome
signed, inscribed and dated 'New Road over the Pontine Marshes/ JohnSmith 1803.' (verso)
pencil and watercolour
9 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (23.2 x 34.6 cm.)

with Martyn Gregory, London, 1985, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

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.