View from the Back of St Peter's, Rome

View from the Back of St Peter's, Rome
View from the Back of St Peter's, Rome
View from the Back of St Peter's, Rome
Private Collection / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
View from the Back of St Peter's, Rome
Date
c.1752-56 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white, on brownish paper
Dimensions
Metric: 285 x 426 mm
Imperial: 11 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.
Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
BB49
Wilson Online Reference
D209
Description
The view shows a section of Rome from outside the city to the south with the buildings of the Vatican prominent against the sky at the centre. In the foreground are two standing figures, perhaps intended as monks, and one seated on a laden donkey.
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (10); Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, British Artists in Europe, 1973 (1, repr.); Conwy 2009 (8)
Provenance
Thomas Hudson; Benjamin Booth; his son, the Revd R.S. Booth; Elizabeth Booth and Marianne Booth (later Lady Ford); thence by descent
Signature/inscription
Signed in monogram, lower left: RW. [the R reversed]
Verso inscriptions
[1] Benjamin Booth, pencil: from Hudson's Colln | was purchased at His Auction | B.B.
[2] In Revd R.S. Booth's hand: R. Booth
Mount inscriptions
[1] Recto lower left in pencil: Mr Hudson's collection Wm Dashwood [?]
Labels
[1] Verso: Bookplate of Richard Ford with the Ford coat of arms and in ink his signature and the title, View from the Back of St Peter's
Bibliography
Walpole Society 1998-I, pp. 20-21, BB49; Lord 2009, p. 50
Updated by Compiler
2016-04-26 00:00:00