An Italianate building with figures in the foreground

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Thomas Girtin (London 1775-1802)
An Italianate building with figures in the foreground
pencil and watercolour on paper
12½ x 9 in. (31.8 x 22.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Susan Morris for dating the present watercolour to 1796/7. Girtin appears to have based the present drawing on the left hand side of a painting (or the related engraving) by Marco Ricci (Royal Collection), see A. Scarpa Sonnino, Marco Ricci, Milan, 1991, p. 250, figs. 140-2.

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