Corso Sant' Anastasia with the Palazzo Maffei in Verona

1855

William Callow

Associated Names
William Callow

Artist, British, 1812 - 1908

The image depicts a street scene from an elevated viewpoint, showing a narrow urban passage lined with buildings. A distant sunlit building stands out at the street's end. A blue sky with clouds is visible above the buildings. The painting features detailed architectural elements and uses warm earthy tones with some blue and soft hues. People in period clothing are seen on the street.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink, with watercolor and gouache and gum arabic over graphite on thick wove paper (laid on early wove card)

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 74 × 58.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.182.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 20 March 1984, no. 162); (sale, Christie's London, 2 July 2013, no. 82, bought in); (via Lowell Libson Ltd., London); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1855

  • Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, London, 1855, no. 215.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 130.

2023

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

Inscriptions

signed and dated at lower right in brown ink: Wm. Callow / 1855; inscribed with various names on the shop signs

Wikidata ID

Q64636506

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