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'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
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'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
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Landesmuseum Hannover - ARTOTHEK
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
Date
Undated
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
42.7 x 53 cm
Dimensions
16 13/16 x 20 7/8 in
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Niedersächsischen Landesmuseums, Hannover, Germany. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
B937
Wilson Online Reference
P197D
Description
The viewpoint is nearer the edge of the river than in other versions, giving the falls greater height; a woman is in the right foreground.
The viewpoint is nearer the edge of the river than in other versions, giving the falls greater height; a woman is in the right foreground.
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Provenance
Given to the museum in 1928 by a Berlin art dealer
Given to the museum in 1928 by a Berlin art dealer
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Critical commentary
As noted by Constable, this version closely resembles a drawing of the subject formerly in the collection of Mrs Richard Ford and described in the Tate Gallery exhibition of 1925 as <i>View of Tivoli</i> (81)
As noted by Constable, this version closely resembles a drawing of the subject formerly in the collection of Mrs Richard Ford and described in the Tate Gallery exhibition of 1925 as
View of Tivoli
(81)
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Bibliography
<i>Kunstchronik</i> 1928, p. 68; <i>Kunsthist. Studien des Prov.-Mus. Hannover</i>, vol. 2, 1929, pl. 47; WGC, p. 211, pl. 98b (version 5)
Kunstchronik
1928, p. 68;
Kunsthist. Studien des Prov.-Mus. Hannover
, vol. 2, 1929, pl. 47; WGC, p. 211, pl. 98b (version 5)
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Versions
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
A Weir on the River Po near Ferrara
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
A View on the River Po near Ferrara (Figures by a Waterfall)
, Magdalen College, Oxford
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Weir on the Po (Figures by a Waterfall)
, Collection of Richard L. Feigen & Co
Ascribed to Wilson,
The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)
, Private Collection, England
Exhibitions
London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
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William George Constable,
Richard Wilson
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