Lot 98
- 98
William Callow, R.W.S.
Estimate
7,500 - 9,500 USD
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Description
- William Callow, R.W.S.
- Albrecht Dürer's house at Nuremberg
- Watercolor and pen and brown ink over traces of pencil, heightened with body color;
signed lower left: William / Callow 1875.
Provenance
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1997, lot 166,
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Summer 1875, unnumbered
Literature
Ed. H.M. Cundall, William Callow, R.W.S. F.R.G.S. An Autobiography, London 1908, p. 159;
J. Reynolds, William Callow, R.W.S., London 1980, p. 218
J. Reynolds, William Callow, R.W.S., London 1980, p. 218
Catalogue Note
This watercolor is based upon sketches taken in 1846 when Callow was on his honeymoon. He and his wife Harriet travelled up the Rhine to Switzerland and then on to Venice. He noted that Nuremberg provided many 'capital subjects'1 with picturesque buildings whose detailed decoration made it difficult to sketch.
Dürer was born in Nuremberg in 1471 and rose to become the greatest artist of the German Renaissance. He lived in the house depicted in this watercolour between 1509 and 1528.
1. J. Reynolds, William Callow R.W.S., London 1980, p. 82