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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 3(v) and 4(r)
1754
Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
B1977.14.359 v3 & r4
D280/3
4(r): Ruinous architecture with an arch, niche and distant aqueduct
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
4(r) inscribed by Wilson recto upper right, graphite: aqueduct
Possibly another section of the Claudian Aqueduct, depicted on D280/1 p. 2(r) of this sketchbook
Object ID: 6363
Sutton & Clements 1968
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).