WILLIAM CALLOW, O.W.S. (1812-1908)
VIEW OF A PROMENADE AT DESENZANO ON LAKE GARDA
Signed l.r. W. Callow / 1866
Watercolour
22 x 47 cm
This view of the charming lakeside town of Desenzano (1), built on the shores of the southwestern corner of Lake Garda, was either painted shortly after Callow's visit to Italy in the Autumn of 1865, when he visited Verona and travelled onwards to Venice through the Lakes. That trip was taken in the company of Sidney Richard Percy (1822-1886), Callow's near-neighbour in Great Missenden and an accomplished landscape painter (in oils).
NOTES
(1) For a closely-comparable perspective showing the same lakeside promenade and distinctive tower in the far right-hand distance, see James Duffield Harding's view from 1834, now in a private collection:
https://www.watercolourworld.org/collections/efb52d55-b526-3a07-8711-b36e70824ef1/?s%3Ddesenzano&pos=3