The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianæ

The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
Joseph Wood after Wilson
Title
The Lake of Nemi or Speculum Dianæ
Date
Published 1764
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Metric: 494 x 440 mm
Imperial: 19 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.
Accession Number
1866,1114.499
Wilson Online Reference
E13
Description
Landscape with Diana expelling Callisto, having learned that she is pregnant, on the bank of a lake in the foreground, where two other nymphs comfort her. Trees frame the scene and there is a town on the distant mountainside under an extensive sky.
Related Prints
E82 Louis Marvy after Wilson, Lake Nemi or Speculum Dianæ, The British Museum (in reverse)
Related Paintings
P127A The Lake of Nemi, with Diana and Callisto, Trustees of Jane, Lucy and Charles Hoare, The National Trust, Strourhead
Critical commentary
This print was based on P127A The Lake of Nemi, with Diana and Callisto, Trustees of Jane, Lucy and Charles Hoare, on loan to the National Trust, Stourhead. As stated in the inscription the painting belonged to Wilson's patron, Henry Hoare. Originally announced in a newspaper advertisement in October 1758, the print was finally published by John Boydell in 1764 as a pendant to Wood's engraving The Gipsies after Gainsborough. It was the first print after a landscape by Wilson.
Bibliography
Public Advertiser, 14 October 1758; Booth Notes Doc. 6; Booth Notes Doc. 7; Edwards 1808, p. 88; WGC, p. 165; Clayton 1997, pp. 182 & 188; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 279
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
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2020-01-08 00:00:00