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Thomas Wyck (?1616 - 1677)
Italian Street Scene
A125; oil on panel; 32 x 26 cm
Signed: T Wÿck
Bequeathed by Revd Dr Thomas Penrose, 1851; WA1851.22
White 1999, p. 173
It is nor certain whether or not Wyck went to Italy although he used an Italianate background for a number of his pictures, as here, where two women are washing clothes in an antique sarcophagus used as a cistern.
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