Samuel Smith, Roundel with a landscape featuring a Gothic ruin

Roundel with a landscape featuring a Gothic ruin, 1831 or after

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A monochrome watercolour roundel showing a picturesque landscape with a Gothic ruin in the background and a seated figure and his dog in the foreground. Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester and the colour, style and shape of this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design for porcelain. 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.

Object details

Title
Roundel with a landscape featuring a Gothic ruin
Artist/designer
Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)
Date
1831 or after
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Monochrome (greenish black) watercolour on cream wove paper
Dimensions

144 mm x 146 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
02/734
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Gilbert Bakewell Stretton 1949
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