A road near Seville, Spain

Details

JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A. (1804-1876)
A road near Seville, Spain
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with scratching out on paper
12 1⁄8 x 16 1⁄4 in. (30.7 x 41.3 cm.)

Provenance

Viscount Eccles.
with Colnaghi, London.
Acquired from Thos Agnew & Sons, London, February 1980.

Exhibited

Guildford, Guildford House Gallery, J. F. Lewis, Painter of the Desert and the Harem, 1977, no.48.
London, Thos Agnew & Sons, 107th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours, 1980, no. 169.

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Lot Essay

Lewis travelled to Spain in 1832, reaching Madrid by mid-July. The present work may have been one of the several pictures of Spanish life that Lewis exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1834 and 1835. The woman on the heavily laden mule is similar to the lithograph, Peasant Girl on a mule, Andalusia, plate 9 in Lewis's Sketches of Spain & Spanish Character made during his Tour in that Country, in the Years 1833-34, London 1836.
We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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