View of Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy

Details

WILLIAM CALLOW, R.W.S (GREENWICH 1812-1908 GREAT MISSENDEN)
View of Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
signed and dated 'William/ Callow./ 1856.' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white, and with scratching out
20 5/8 x 30 1/2 in. (52.4 x 77.5 cm.)

Provenance

Decimus Burton (1800-1881).
with Frost and Reed, London.

Exhibited

London, Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colour, summer 1856, no. 170.

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Lot Essay

This drawing was owned by Decimus Burton, the leading Victorian architect and landscaper responsible for the glasshouses at Kew Gardens, the Wellington Arch, and The Athenaeum, among other well-known buildings.

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