The Log Fire

The Log Fire
The Log Fire
The Log Fire
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
The Log Fire
Date
c.1751-52 (undated)
Medium
Black and red chalks, heightened with white, on grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 172 x 242 mm
Imperial: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF73
Wilson Online Reference
D71
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (25 - Logs burning)
Provenance
William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821 (part of 392?); Marianne Ford; thence by descent
Related Paintings
P51 Landscape with Banditti round a Tent, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Critical commentary
Probably a study for the log fire in the right foreground of P51 Landscape with Banditti round a Tent, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, painted in 1752 for the Earl of Wicklow. Wilson began to use grey paper for his drawings soon after his arrival in Rome, following the example of French artists there.
Bibliography
Ford 1951, pp. 25-26; Ford May 1951, p. 162, fig. 25: Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 70, RF 73