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Charles Holroyd R.E.
Potternewton, Leeds 1861 – 1917 Weybridge
Landor’s Villa
Landor’s Villa
Dodgson 265 (Holroyd 270)
89 x 164 mm
Original etching, 1911-12.
Signed in pencil.
Entitled and with the opus number at the foot of the sheet.
Printed in brown-black on cream laid paper partially watermarked O.W.P&A.C.L.
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The skyline of Florence from the garden of Landor’s villa, with views of Brunelleschi’s dome and the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio.
Walter Savage Landor, poet and writer, lived in Florence at the Villa Castiglione from 1821 to 1829, where he wrote some of his best known works.
Provenance: by descent from the artist to his widow Lady Holroyd; to their son Michael; to Michael’s godson.
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