A Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice

1866

William Callow

Artist, British, 1812 - 1908

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite with gouache on wove paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.4 × 35.5 cm (17 7/8 × 14 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.33.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 26 March 1975, no. 250). (Agnew's, London). (Galerie de Cadre, Paris). (sale, Christie's London, 8 July 1997, no. 74); to Bernadette and William M. B. Berger, Denver; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2017, no. 99); purchased (via Stephen Ongpin) by NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1866

  • ? Summer Exhibition, Society of Painters in Water-Colours_, 1866 (as "Venice, looking up the Grand Canal").

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017 (no cat.).

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

inscribed by the artist at lower right: William Callow 1866

Wikidata ID

Q64636624

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