Samuel Smith, A green shell on seaweed

A green shell on seaweed, by ca. 1840

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A watercolour drawing of a green shell on seaweed. Shells, like flowers and landscape vignettes, were popular subjects for decorating porcelain. This drawing, along with the others on the same mount, is almost certainly related to Smith's work as a porcelain painter for Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester. John Homes Smith and his son John Halphead Smith who collected these drawings also worked as porcelain painters and they probably knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith.

Object details

Title
A green shell on seaweed
Artist/designer
Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)
Date
by ca. 1840
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Watercolour on cream wove paper
Dimensions

78 mm x 98 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
02/739
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Gilbert Bakewell Stretton 1949
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