View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance

View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
Thomas Hastings after Wilson
Title
View on the Tiber with Rome in the Distance
Date
Published 1824
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
Metric: 177 x 217 mm
Imperial: 7 x 8 1/8 in.
Accession Number
1854,0708.95
Wilson Online Reference
E72/38
Description
Landscape, with a priest, a man and a woman standing together on the wooded bank of the Tiber in the foreground at the centre left. Behind them a fourth figure looks over a wall in front of trees and a tower. Across the Tiber some buildings of Rome, including St Peter's and the Castel San Angelo (Mausoleum of Hadrian), are seen in the distance.
Provenance
Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford 4ft 7 In by 3 ft 3 In.', production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings 1824.'
Page numbered lower right: 38
Related Drawings
D172 A Roman Altar at Palestrina, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
D302 Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
Related Paintings
P64 Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
P64A A View of the Tiber with Rome in the Distance (Rome from the Ponte Molle), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven (Lady Ford's painting)
Related Works by Other Artists
[1] Francis Towne (1739-1816): The Ponte Molle, watercolour, 1781, The British Museum (Nn,1.20)
Critical commentary
From a series of forty etchings after paintings by Richard Wilson and additional title page, bound in a volume in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Wilson's | Etchings | by | Hastings'; the title page lettered in black and red: 'Etchings, | from the Works | of | [ facsimile of signature below portrait] Ric. Wilson | with Some Memoirs of his Life, &c. | by Thomas Hastings, Esq. | Collector of His Majesty's Customs. | "Non Ductus Officio Sed Amore Operis." Quintillian. | Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London. | Johnson, Typ. Apollo Press, 1825. Brook Street, Holborn'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
PRA324791
Bibliography
Hastings 1825, p. 19, repr.; WGC, p. 222 under pl. 113b; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
More Information
George Willis was an antiquarian book dealer, who occasionally published books and prints. His firm was active from 1832-1856 and sold many prints to the British Museum. In 1856 it merged with Thomas Sotheran to become Willis & Sotheran.
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2015-12-09 00:00:00