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John Warwick Smith

Assisi in the Province of Umbria, 1794

Description

Maker

Title

Assisi in the Province of Umbria

Year

1794

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

Plate: 12.4 x 19.1 cm (4 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in brown ink in LL verso of mat:Assisi, in the province of Umbria/J. Smith 1794 Verso:Numbered in pencil in CR:8822

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

72.171.39

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Distant Climes

September 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

Named for his benefactor, the Earl of Warwick, John “Warwick” Smith executed this small, highly finished work after returning from his five-year tour of Italy in 1781. The composition is distinctly classical, consisting of foreground flora, tiny figures for scale, and a curving road that leads the eye of the viewer from foreground to background. The artist’s careful pen work clearly describes Assisi’s individual buildings, while at the same time his simplified color palette of blues and greens places an overall emphasis on shapes and broad masses.

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