A roundel with a landscape view of a crumbling archway with a stream below

RA Collection: Art

A monochrome watercolour roundel with a view of a crumbling arch with a small river or stream flowing beneath it. The style, subject matter, colouring and shape of this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design for porcelain. Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of 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 it is almost certain that they knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith..