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Looking up the Grand Canal, Venice

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

1866

Artist

William Callow (1812-1908)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Callow first visited Venice in 1840 when his visit coincided with Turner and they were staying in the same hotel. Callow wrote in his diary:
`The next time I met Turner was at Venice, at the Hotel Europa, where we sat opposite at meals and entered into conversation. One evening whilst I was enjoying a cigar in a gondola I saw Turner in another one sketching San Giorgio, brilliantly lit up by the setting sun. I felt quite ashamed of myself idling away my time whilst he was hard at work so late’ (William Callow – an Autobiography, edited by H.M. Cundall, 1908, pp.66-67). Venice was Callow’s favourite city and his Venetian views are his most sought after pictures.

Inscription

Signed lower right: William Callow/1866 and again verso: No.3/Venice from near the St Giorgios & grand Canal/by/William Callow R.W.S./The Firs/G.t Missenden

Descriptive Medium

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

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Buildings & Architecture

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