Isola di Sora
Italian (Neapolitan) School
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Gouache on paper
Measurements
140 x 190 mm
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607926.6
Summary
Gouache on brown paper, Isola di Sora, Italian (Neapolitan) School, circa 1820. One of a set of twelve gouache drawings, circa 1820. Gouache on paper. View of a mountainous village, flanked either side by high dams and rushing water. Male and female peasant figures wearing traditional costume in the foreground. Distant mountains. 'Isola di Sora' (written in gold below drawing). On brown paper page with wash border, in a red leather sketchbook.
Provenance
Possibly 3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842). By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
Isola di Sora (written in gold below drawing)
Makers and roles
Italian (Neapolitan) School, artist