Distant View of Loreto
John 'Warwick' Smith (Irthington 1749 – London 1831)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1785 (signed and dated)
Materials
Watercolour paint, paper, wood
Measurements
350 x 513 mm
Place of origin
Loreto
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730830
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Distant View of Loreto, by John 'Warwick' Smith (Irthington 1749 – London 1831), signed and dated: J.Smith 1785. The town of Loreto with its church and cupola is seen on its hill in the middle distance, with the sea, right; a procession of nuns on a path in the foreground.
Makers and roles
John 'Warwick' Smith (Irthington 1749 – London 1831), artist
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.45