JOHN `WARWICK` SMITH (1749-1831) A SAILING BOAT ON THE WYE BELOW THE NEW WEIR Watercolour 12.7 x 21cm. * The original mount bore the date July 1788 and was inscribed `View on The Wye below the New Weir, continueing the Navigation towards Monmouth. At this place another, and most interesting Scene succeeds. Here the Stream of the Wye, recover'd from its recent agitation at the New Wear, continues its pellucid course, gliding past a Fisherman's Cottage, Enviably Secluded` Provenance: London, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd ++ Slight discolouration and fading; speckles of foxing; two blue areas of pigment in the sky upper left; needs a light clean