Tree Stems

Tree Stems
Tree Stems
Tree Stems
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Tree Stems
Date
c. 1754 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 216 x 216 mm
Imperial: 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF91
Wilson Online Reference
D287
Description
Tree trunks are shown prominently to the right in the foreground. Further back on the left a man is bending over behind a fallen tree
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (32 - Withered Tree Stems); Birmingham 1948-49 (100); London 1949 (99); Arts Council 1951 (213)
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
As Luke Herrmann has remarked, this fresh and spontaneous drawing demonstrates Wilson's increasingly effective recording of natural scenery during the second half of his time in Italy.
Bibliography
Ford 1951, pp. 27, 53, pl. 11; Festival 1951, p. 68; Walpole 1998-I, p. 72, RF91