Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pozzuoli

WILLIAMS, Penry (Artist)

This oil sketch showing the town of Pozzuoli, near Naples, is spontaneous, informal, and strikingly fresh. But Penry Williams, like many other artists at that time, never thought such studies would be seen in public. He once told his sponsor Joseph Bailey that his collection of small, unfinished sketches were "only useful to myself and would be uninteresting to you".

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 512

Creation/Production

1802-1885
Role: Artist
Period: 1831

Acquisition

Purchase, 8/2/1940

Measurements

Height (cm): 27.8
Width (cm): 41.5
Height (in): 10
Width (in): 16

Techniques

Paper
Canvas

Material

Oil

Location

In store
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