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A landscape with a white dwelling on two arches in the foreground, with two figures and goats

Richard Hulse (1727-1805) of Blackheath; Benjamin Booth; Revd. R.S. Booth; Lady Ford; Richard Ford; Sir F. Clare Ford; Captain Richard Ford, sold Christie's 14 June 1929 (24 - Strada Nomentana or Villa Adriana), bt with a black and white drawing of the subject by Spink (520 guineas); Stanley Marling, Amberley, Gloucester; bequeathed to Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery 1963

 

 

[1] Verso upper left print and typescript exhibition label: Cheltenham Twenty-first Literary Festival [...] Exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery [/] Fine Paintings from Gloucestershire Houses and other Sources [/] 5th to 17th July 1965 [/] Catalogue No. 35
[2] Verso upper centre manuscript [K. Garlick, Birmingham]: Wilson [/] Hadrian's Villa [/] Lent by S. Marling Esq.
[3] Verso lower centre on horizontal stretcher member manuscript and printed: Christie's [/] June 14th [/] 1929 [/] RICHARD WILSON, R.A. [/] 24 STRADA NOMENTANA, OR VILLA ADRIANA [/] A landscape, with a white villa on two red arches; two [/] figures and goats in the foreground [/] 17 1/2 in. by 13 3/4 in. [/] Exhibited at Burlington House, 1882 [/] Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1885 [/] A black and white drawing of this subject, by the artist, [/] is sold with the picture [/] 43
[4] Verso right corner of lower horizontal stretcher, ink: 96
[5] Verso lower right partly obliterated and illegible typescript

 

E42 Michael 'Angelo' Rooker after Wilson In the Villa Adriana Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven and other impressions
E80 Celia Lucy Brightwell after Wilson Hadrian's Villa, The British Museum and other impressions
E83 James Carter after Wilson, Hadrian's Villa The British Museum and other impressions

 

 

Booth Notes Doc. 8; Booth Notes Doc. 9 (15); WGC, p. 200 pl. 80b (version 2)

 

Relined. This painting is in good condition and cleaner than P137A The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. Treated by Miss S.Wood 1976. Surveyed by Area Museum Service in 1997.

Kate Lowry has noted:
Convincing building, sky and figures. Under UV no retouches were visible.