Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge

Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Composition: Landscape with Figures on a Bridge
Date
c.1754 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, enclosed in a thick ruled black chalk border.
Dimensions
Metric: 114 x 153 mm
Imperial: 4 1/2 x 6 in.
Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF88
Wilson Online Reference
D286
Description
In the foreground a group of four figures and a dog stand on a stone bridge across a stream or river. Behind and to the right are large trees and in the middle distance to the left are two figures on another bridge.
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (43 - Landscape)
Provenance
William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Critical commentary
Close to D281 Homage before a Statue, Private Collection Collection, England in technique, manner, presentation, dimensions and presumably date
Bibliography
Ford 1951, p. 55, pl. 25