Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877)

Ornament from the Andrea Guardi Tomb in Santa Croce, Florence

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Pencil and watercolour
Signed:  Digby Wyatt
Inscribed:  FLORENCE Ornament from the tomb of Andrea Guardi in Santa Croce, 1472
Inscribed with number:  21
15.5 x 10.4 cms

Price:  please apply to jbl@gallerylingard.com

Wyatt was fascinated by the decorative details to be found on all monuments and he called the drawings he made of them 'specimens'.  Wyatt gathered together a collection of his drawings of decorative details in the same way as Owen Jones when forming his The Grammar of Ornament published in 1856.