Solitude, Study for a Picture

Solitude, Study for a Picture
Solitude, Study for a Picture
Solitude, Study for a Picture
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Solitude, Study for a Picture
Date
c. 1762 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk and stump, touched with white, on brown-grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 257 x 347 mm
Imperial: 10 1/8 x 13 11/16 in.
Accession Number
1881,0212.3
Wilson Online Reference
D359
Description
A pool is depicted, on the left bank of which stands an old man in a long robe beside a seated figure under a tree. On the high further bank is a grove and at the right a weeping willow overhangs the water.
Exhibited
London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (100)
Provenance
Donated by John Deffett Francis, 1881
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Verso inscriptions
Verso invisible - laid down
Related Prints
E44 William Woollett and William Ellis after Wilson Solitude, 1778, National Museum Wales, Cardiff and other impressions
E57 Christian Duttenhofer after Wilson,Solitude, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
Related Paintings
P114 Solitude - I, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
P114A Solitude - I, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
P114B Solitude - I , Private Collection Ireland
P115 Wilson and Studio, Solitude - II, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Critical commentary
A compositional sketch for P114
Bibliography
Binyon 16; WGC, p. 169, pl. 28b; Solkin 1982, p. 212
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
Condition/Conservation
Very stained and worn