Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
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
Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 v3 & r4
Wilson Online Reference
D280/3
Description
4(r): Ruinous architecture with an arch, niche and distant aqueduct
Provenance
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
Critical commentary
Possibly another section of the Claudian Aqueduct, depicted on D280/1 p. 2(r) of this sketchbook
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968
More Information
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).