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Studies & Designs: Landscape with two Figures under Trees
National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
Studies & Designs: Landscape with two Figures under Trees
Published 1811
Soft-ground etching on India laid paper
99 x 147 mm
3 7/8 x 5 3/4 in.
NMW A 10985
E60/14A
Landscape with a man and a woman under trees in the left foreground. The man gestures to the right across a river winding through fields - all in an etched rectangular border.
Thomas Henry Thomas Bequest 1916
Lettered below the image: 'Wilson inv | Whessell sc'
[1] Lower centre, pencil: 9
No precise subject seems intended and the dress of the figures combines the ancient with the modern
D53/20 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 20, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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From a set of small soft-ground etchings by Whessell made after Wilson's drawings in a sketchbook at the Victoria & Albert Museum (D53-D53/81). The present print is taken from p. 20 (D53/20). In 1811 the etchings were published by the Oxford-based publisher, Robert Archer in more than one format.
16.182
Archer 1811, p. 9
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