British Drawings & Watercolours

/

Lot 388
  • 388

James Holland 1800-1870

bidding is closed

Description

  • James Holland, O.W.S.
  • The Tombs of the Scaligers, Verona
  • signed and inscribed with title l.l.: J. H. Verona. 35/ Tombs of the Scaligers; l.c.;  Tombs of the Scaligers J H 1835/ and l.r.: J. H. 1835/ Verona
  • watercolour over pencil heightened with white

Catalogue Note

For much of his life James Holland was based in Greenwich, London. However he did travel, and in 1835 he was in Italy. The present work depicts the imposing gothic tombs of the Scaliger family, which adjoins the twelth century Church of Santa Maria Antica, Verona. The family ruled Verona in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and were undoubtedly great patrons of the arts.