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Woodland Scene
Tate, London 2014
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Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Woodland Scene
c.1770 (undated)
Black and white chalk and stump over graphite on buff laid paper, inlaid on modern cream card
225 x 258 mm
8 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.
T09289
D372
William Esdaile; Paul Oppé; purchased as part of Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, 1996
Unsigned
Inscribed: lower right corner in black ink: WE
[1] Recto lower right, pen: WE. (William Esdaile, Lugt 2617)
D373 Study for The Wilderness in St James's Park , The British Museum
P182 View of the Wilderness in St. James's Park Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
P182A View of the Wilderness in St. James's Park, Private Collection, England
It has been suggested that D372 may be a preparatory drawing for P182 View of the Wilderness in St. James's Park , Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. The presence of the artist seated under the tree relates it more closely to P182A View of the Wilderness in St James's Park , Private collection England. In any case the resemblance is generic rather than specific and D373 Study for The Wilderness in St James's Park , The British Museum, is compositionally closer to both paintings.
2384
Some brown spotting overall and verso; the latter shows through in a vertical band left recto