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Angoulême Cathedral from the South East

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Date

June 1836

Artist

William Callow (1812-1908)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on blue-grey paper. This dates from Callow’s first sketching tour to Southern France in the summer of 1836. Callow set off from Paris on 6th June with a German friend called Soherr and travelled along the Loire and then to the South. They arrived in Angouleme on the evening of 26th June exhausted after a long walk in the hot sun. They slept most of the day of the 27th but Callow records in his diary: `In the evening we went on the ramparts, which surround the town; saw a lovely sunset and the full moon rise. In the interesting old town are some towers remaining of an old castle, and the ancient cathedral has some curious sculptures on the exterior’ (see William Callow – an Autobiography, 1908, pp.42). This sketch dates from the morning of the 28th June before they set off for Barbezieux. Callow writes: `The weather piping hot…. Made some sketches in the broiling sun’ (op.cit, p. 43).

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Angoulême Cathedral, France

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