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Edith Hume (1843-1906) - 1870 Watercolour, Fisherwoman Collecting Water

1870

A delightful watercolour portrait depicting an Italian girl holding her fishing net and yarn. The girl is depicted in traditional dress with a colourful coloured apron. Signed to the...

A charming watercolor portrait depicting a mother and child fetching water. Presented in a pierced gilt frame with scrolling acanthus details. On paper.

Country Woman is an original watercolor artwork realized in the XIX century by Agostino Aglio Good conditions except for tears along the margin and a little hole on higher right side. This precious modern artwork represents a woman, probably a peasant woman leaning against a little wall. Agostino Aglio (Cremona, 15 December 1777 - London, 30 January 1857) was an Italian painter, draftsman, engraver and lithographer. Son of Gaetano and Anna Maria Mondoni, he was sent to Milan in 1789 to study with Giocondo Albertolli., And then in Rome with the landscape artist Campovecchio. In 1798 he volunteered in the legion of the Cisalpine Republic and from 1799 to 1802 he traveled to Greece and Egypt with the architect William Wilkins, who invited him to England, where he settled in 1803; two years later he married Letitia Clarke. He decorated churches, theaters and villas, executed two portraits of Queen Victoria...

This is a beautiful antique watercolour study 'Water Carrier' by Filippo Indoni, circa 1890. It is the study of a young female figure with water carrier, standing in a street, signe...