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SM P38. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA (1779 - 1844)
"The Passage Point", an Italian Composition
1829-30
Oil on canvas
Height: 107.1cm
Width: 215.3cm
Width: 215.3cm
Museum number: P38
On display: Picture Room - inside planes (by arrangement or on some pre-booked tours)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit - not all tours show the inside of all planes.
Curatorial note
The work is dated 1829-30. It may have been completed by the time the frame was paid for in March 1830.
Provenance
Commissioned by Soane in 1829. Soane commissioned this work after rejecting J.M.W. Turner's Forum Romanum for Mr. Soane's Museum which is now in the Tate.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p.15, 1835, p. 15
Brown, D. B., Augustus Wall Callcott 1779-1844, Tate Exhibition Catalogue, 1981, pp. 42-44
New Description of Sir John Soane's Museum, 2007, p.64, fig. 41, p.102
Dorey, H., JMW Turner and John Soane: Illuminating a Friendship, exhibition catalogue, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2007, pp.14-16
Brown, D. B., Augustus Wall Callcott 1779-1844, Tate Exhibition Catalogue, 1981, pp. 42-44
New Description of Sir John Soane's Museum, 2007, p.64, fig. 41, p.102
Dorey, H., JMW Turner and John Soane: Illuminating a Friendship, exhibition catalogue, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2007, pp.14-16
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1830
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