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A Fisherman's Dwelling
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A Fisherman's Dwelling
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Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
A Fisherman's Dwelling
Date
c.1751 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
156 x 216 mm
Dimensions
6 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF61
Wilson Online Reference
D36
Description
In the left foreground is a tree festooned with a fishing net, behind which is a house. To the right a man holding a staff stands on a rock, a woman and child are ween beyond to his left and a fourth figure appears inthe door of the house.
In the left foreground is a tree festooned with a fishing net, behind which is a house. To the right a man holding a staff stands on a rock, a woman and child are ween beyond to his left and a fourth figure appears inthe door of the house.
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (54 - <i>Landscape</i>); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (14); Gainsborough's House 2014 (unnumbered)
Exeter 1946 (54 -
Landscape
); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (14); Gainsborough's House 2014 (unnumbered)
Provenance
<span class="underline">William Lock of Norbury</span>; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
William Lock of Norbury
; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
Signature/inscription
Signed lower left: R.W.f.
Signed lower left: R.W.f.
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Subject
Probably a rococo invention rather than a topographical view
Probably a rococo invention rather than a topographical view
Related Subjects
Related Drawings
D29 <i>A Rocky Landscape</i>, Private Collection, England D336 <i>Fishermen on a Rock in a River</i>, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
D29
A Rocky Landscape
, Private Collection, England
D336
Fishermen on a Rock in a River
, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Critical commentary
Probably executed in Venice or shortly afterwards during Wilson's journey to Rome (1751-52). The paper bears the top half of an Italian 1747 watermark. The lower half appears in D29 <i>A Rocky Landscape</i>, Private Collection, England. Wilson's style of monogram signature is used on a number of drawings from early in his career, some of them depicting imaginary subjects.
Probably executed in Venice or shortly afterwards during Wilson's journey to Rome (1751-52). The paper bears the top half of an Italian 1747 watermark. The lower half appears in D29
A Rocky Landscape
, Private Collection, England. Wilson's style of monogram signature is used on a number of drawings from early in his career, some of them depicting imaginary subjects.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Bibliography
W.A. Churchill, <span class="italic">Watermarks in Paper in the XVII and XVIII Centuries</span>, Amsterdam, 1935, no. 262; Ford 1951, p. 52, pl. 4; Solkin 1982, p. 154; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 69, RF61
W.A. Churchill,
Watermarks in Paper in the XVII and XVIII Centuries
, Amsterdam, 1935, no. 262; Ford 1951, p. 52, pl. 4; Solkin 1982, p. 154; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 69, RF61
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Illustrations of the Work
Updated by Compiler
15/11/2018
15/11/2018
Work of Art
Drawings
A Rocky Landscape
, Private Collection, England
Fishermen on a Rock in a River
, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 2014
Biographies
William Lock 'of Norbury', 1732-1810
Documents
David Solkin,
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
Brinsley Ford,
The Drawings of Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford and other authors,
The Ford Collection
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