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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
Date
1754
Medium
Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
Dimensions
281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
Dimensions
11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 v3 & r4
Wilson Online Reference
D280/3
Description
4(r): Ruinous architecture with an arch, niche and distant aqueduct
4(r): Ruinous architecture with an arch, niche and distant aqueduct
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Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
4(r) inscribed by Wilson recto upper right, graphite: aqueduct
4(r) inscribed by Wilson recto upper right, graphite: aqueduct
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Critical commentary
Possibly another section of the Claudian Aqueduct, depicted on D280/1 p. 2(r) of this sketchbook
Possibly another section of the Claudian Aqueduct, depicted on D280/1 p. 2(r) of this sketchbook
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968
Sutton & Clements 1968
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Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 <i>Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII</i>, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).
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).
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Paul Mellon, 1907-1999
Oldfield Bowles, 1739-1810
Sir George Beaumont, 1753-1827
Documents
Denys Sutton & Ann Clements,
An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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