3-043-752 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Castle and Church of St. Valerie, Sion, Canton Valais" - painted by G. C. Stanfield - from the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1856. Fortified Roman Catholic church at Sion in Switzerland. Engraving of a painting by '...Mr. G. C. Stanfield, the son of everbody's Clarkson Stanfield. It is easy to see in what good school the young painter studied, and pleasant to observe the rapid progress he is making in his art. The picture we engrave is the work of no common hand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.