Old Master and British Works on Paper
Old Master and British Works on Paper
A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Thomas Hartley Cromek, A.N.W.S.
Recto: The outer Colonnade of the Colosseum, Rome Verso: A study of a large house surrounded by woods
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A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Thomas Hartley Cromek, A.N.W.S.
London 1809 - 1873 Wakefield
Recto: The outer Colonnade of the Colosseum, Rome
Verso: A study of a large house surrounded by woods
Watercolour (recto), pencil (verso);
signed, inscribed and dated lower centre: T. H. Cromek Rome 1848
367 by 292 mm
Sale, London, Christie's, 24 March 1987, lot 140;
where acquired by the late owners
where acquired by the late owners
This watercolour is dated 1848, the year before Cromek left Italy, where he had been living, primarily in Rome, since 1831.