Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 18(v) and 19(r)

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 18(v) and 19(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 18(v) and 19(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings  pp. 18(v) and 19(r)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 18(v) and 19(r)
Date
1754
Medium
Graphite with black and white chalk and stump 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 v18 & r19
Wilson Online Reference
D280/18
Description
18(v) is blank
19(r) is a study of an antique armless, partly-draped 3/4-length sculpted torso seen frontally against shadow
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Related Drawings
D280/14 Italian Sketchbook p. 15(r)
Critical commentary
Clements noted that the sculpture bears some resemblance to the badly damaged torso of Menelaus, now known as Pasquino, at the corner of Palazzo Braschi, Rome - a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. The same piece seen from another angle appears on p. 15(r) of this sketchbook (D280/14)
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 17-18; vol. 2, p. 38
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).