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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (front cover)
Date
1754
Medium
Vellum
Dimensions
281 x 210 mm
Dimensions
11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 front cover
Wilson Online Reference
D280
Description
Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones
Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones
Exhibited
New Haven, English Landscape, 1977 (15); New Haven 1981 (90); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (39); New Haven 2001 (106)
New Haven, English Landscape, 1977 (15); New Haven 1981 (90); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (39); New Haven 2001 (106)
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
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Unsigned; no inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
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Critical commentary
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 <i>Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII</i>, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81
Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII
, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Constable 1954, p. 143; Sutton & Clements 1968; Solkin 1982, pp. 164-65
Constable 1954, p. 143; Sutton & Clements 1968; Solkin 1982, pp. 164-65
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Updated by Compiler
09/09/2016
09/09/2016
Work of Art
Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 29 July - 20 September 1981
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 17 May - 2 September 2001
Biographies
William Hodges, 1744-1797
Paul Mellon, 1907-1999
Oldfield Bowles, 1739-1810
Sir George Beaumont, 1753-1827
Documents
William George Constable, 'Richard Wilson: Some Pentimenti'
Denys Sutton & Ann Clements,
An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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