Edward William Cooke, R.A. (1811 - 1880), The Piazzetta di San Marco, Venice. Photo Sotheby's

signed on the gondola l.l.: W. COOKE; oil on canvas; 80 by 66cm., 31½ by 26in. Lot 1. Estimate 30,000-50,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: C. F. H. Bolckow;
Christie's, London, 5 May 1888, lot 33, where acquired by W. Vokins;
Private collection

EXHIBITED: Royal Academy, 1860, no. 422;
Manchester, The Fine Art Galleries, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 586.

LITTERATURE! John Munday, E. W. Cooke, A Man of His Time, 1996, p. 352, cat.no. 59/6.

NOTE DE CATALOGUE: The pendant to this work, The Piazzetta Venice, with Lion Column, also originally owned by C. F. H. Bolckow is in the Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum Collection

Sotheby's. British & Irish Art. Londres | 10 mai 2012, 02:00 PM www.sothebys.com