DOI issue:
No. 69 (December 1898)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The work of Harold Speed
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0180
Harold Speed
study for fresco by harold steed
paration for a more prolonged visit later on. weeks' work, making notes of all sorts of quaint
Then he came back to Rome and, after a week's architectural bits, and of the effects of colour and
rest, started to walk through Central Italy to picturesque grouping with which that city abounds.
Venice, sketching as he went, and visiting on his By this time he had begun to weary of the
way Orvieto, Perugia, Assisi, Ancona, Loreto, warmth of the Italian summer, and to crave for a
Ravenna, and Bologna. When finally he arrived change to a climate less enervating and exhausting,
at Venice he settled down for a steady five or six So he turned his steps towards Switzerland, passing
in succession through
Padua, Vicenza, and
.........__......,............. Milan, but spending a
day only in each town.
In Switzerland his longest
stay was made at Weggis,
in the St. Gothard Valley
where he found ample
material for the most fas-
cinating study, and was
able to do a large amount
of out-of-door painting,
kg \ The next place he saw
was Florence, whence,
""" -^.l after a delay of some
. ^jsJjw. weeks, he proceeded once
- ■ x more to Rome, and on to
Capri to confirm the im-
pressions which the island
^ had made upon him dur-
'^*""":?*<K-a,, ing his first flying visit,
""^iffi "n^^ss So satisfying, indeed, to
his artistic instincts did
he find the place that he
isy haroi.d speed settled down for a steady
study from life
study for fresco by harold steed
paration for a more prolonged visit later on. weeks' work, making notes of all sorts of quaint
Then he came back to Rome and, after a week's architectural bits, and of the effects of colour and
rest, started to walk through Central Italy to picturesque grouping with which that city abounds.
Venice, sketching as he went, and visiting on his By this time he had begun to weary of the
way Orvieto, Perugia, Assisi, Ancona, Loreto, warmth of the Italian summer, and to crave for a
Ravenna, and Bologna. When finally he arrived change to a climate less enervating and exhausting,
at Venice he settled down for a steady five or six So he turned his steps towards Switzerland, passing
in succession through
Padua, Vicenza, and
.........__......,............. Milan, but spending a
day only in each town.
In Switzerland his longest
stay was made at Weggis,
in the St. Gothard Valley
where he found ample
material for the most fas-
cinating study, and was
able to do a large amount
of out-of-door painting,
kg \ The next place he saw
was Florence, whence,
""" -^.l after a delay of some
. ^jsJjw. weeks, he proceeded once
- ■ x more to Rome, and on to
Capri to confirm the im-
pressions which the island
^ had made upon him dur-
'^*""":?*<K-a,, ing his first flying visit,
""^iffi "n^^ss So satisfying, indeed, to
his artistic instincts did
he find the place that he
isy haroi.d speed settled down for a steady
study from life