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Composition: Lake and Trees, with Ships
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Composition: Lake and Trees, with Ships
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Tate, London 2014
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Composition: Lake and Trees, with Ships
Date
c.1754 (undated)
Medium
Pen and ink on buff paper laid down on card with washline borders
Dimensions
134 x 176 mm
Dimensions
5 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.
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Collection
Tate, London. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
T09297
Wilson Online Reference
D262
Description
Before a calm sea and cloudy sky two boats are sailing from an island with trees on the left past a shore with trees and cliffs on the right. The nearer one is a sailing boat, almost becalmed, and the more distant a ferry with passengers and a cow.
Before a calm sea and cloudy sky two boats are sailing from an island with trees on the left past a shore with trees and cliffs on the right. The nearer one is a sailing boat, almost becalmed, and the more distant a ferry with passengers and a cow.
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Provenance
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
Signature/inscription
Signed in graphite, lower left corner: R.W.f.
Signed in graphite, lower left corner: R.W.f.
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Verso inscriptions
[1] Old mount, lower centre, pen: SW 988
[1] Old mount, lower centre, pen: SW 988
Mount inscriptions
[1] Lower left corner in faint pencil: £1-1-0 [?]
[1] Lower left corner in faint pencil: £1-1-0 [?]
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Previous Cat/Ref Nos
2502
2502
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Link to WG Constable Archive Record
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Condition/Conservation
Some disfiguring foxing overall
Some disfiguring foxing overall
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Adolf Paul Oppé, 1878-1957
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