Lot 155: Un po' di Roma

Benjamin Walter Spiers (fl.1875-1893)
Un po' di Roma
signed with initials and dated 'B.W.S. 1884' (lower right, on a folio) and further signed and inscribed 'ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS UN PO' di ROMA BY B.W. SPIERS. 70 HEREFORD RD. BAYSWATER.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
20 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (51.8 x 65.2 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1884, no. 1163.

C. Wood, 'Knicknacks and silly Old Books', Country Life, 10 June 1993, pp. 124-125, illustrated.

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