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Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)
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Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)
Date
c.1752-53 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk heightened with white on grey laid paper,
Dimensions
362 x 267 mm
Dimensions
14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
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Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
Accession Number
DYCE.637
Wilson Online Reference
D161
Description
Exhibited
London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (23)
London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (23)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce 1869
Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce 1869
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Unsigned; no inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
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Critical commentary
Ford compared the stylistic handling of this drawing with that of D162 <i>Portrait of Thomas Jenkins</i>, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York, noting the rendering in the dark shadow of the eye sockets and the handling of the collar and cuff.
Ford compared the stylistic handling of this drawing with that of D162
Portrait of Thomas Jenkins
, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York, noting the rendering in the dark shadow of the eye sockets and the handling of the collar and cuff.
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Bibliography
Solkin 1982, p. 158; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 66-67, fig. 38
Solkin 1982, p. 158; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 66-67, fig. 38
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Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
Biographies
The Revd Alexander Dyce, 1798-1869
Documents
David Solkin,
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
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