Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
Date
1754
Medium
Vellum
Dimensions
Metric: 281 x 210 mm
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 front cover
Wilson Online Reference
D280
Description
Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones
Exhibited
New Haven, English Landscape, 1977 (15); New Haven 1981 (90); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (39); New Haven 2001 (106)
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Critical commentary
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Constable 1954, p. 143; Sutton & Clements 1968; Solkin 1982, pp. 164-65
Updated by Compiler
2016-09-09 00:00:00