THE PAGLIA FROM ORVIETO.

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The full record from the Leeds Art Gallery catalogue (undated) reads, “DACRE, S. ISABEL. / Born at Manchester about 1846. Represented in Manchester Art Gallery. / 266. An Italian Landscape: The Paglia from Orvieto. Oil on canvas. Presented by Charles Aitken, Esq., 1912″. Isabel was actually born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1844.

Exact viewpoint uncertain, but possibly the Pozzo di San Patrizio (Well of St Patrick), looking north to the hills behind the settlement of La Svolta (earth.google.com). Remarkably the treelines have hardly changed in well over a century. The river in the foreground is the Flume Paglia which give the painting it’s name – it joins the River Tiber 4 miles/7 km to the east.

Image: Google Earth.

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