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Signora Felice Bocca Stretta
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Signora Felice Bocca Stretta
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Signora Felice Bocca Stretta
Date
c.1751-52 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk and stump on white paper
Dimensions
163 x 228 mm
Dimensions
6 3/8 x 9 in.
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Collection
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
Accession Number
WA1855.132
Wilson Online Reference
D34
Description
Half-length female figure facing to the front, her smiling face inclined forwards and her proper right arm stretched out to her side. She wears a small lace bonnet, a bow round her neck, and a dress tightly bound at the waist
Half-length female figure facing to the front, her smiling face inclined forwards and her proper right arm stretched out to her side. She wears a small lace bonnet, a bow round her neck, and a dress tightly bound at the waist
Exhibited
Baltimore 1979-80 (55); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (22)
Baltimore 1979-80 (55); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (22)
Provenance
Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; inscribed in black chalk by the artist upper right: 'Sigra. Felice Bocca Stretto'
Unsigned; inscribed in black chalk by the artist upper right: 'Sigra. Felice Bocca Stretto'
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Collectors' marks
[1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551) [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
[1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
[2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
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Critical commentary
'Signora Happy Narrow Mouth' was drawn from the life in Italy, probably in Venice, where Wilson was still principally interested in portraiture. The drawing is no. 4 (<i>Girl with wide Mouth</i>) in the Ashmolean's inventory of the Chambers Hall Gift. It is one of a few figure studies verging on caricature, dating from Wilson's first years in Italy, and predominantly originating from the collection of William Lock.
'Signora Happy Narrow Mouth' was drawn from the life in Italy, probably in Venice, where Wilson was still principally interested in portraiture. The drawing is no. 4 (
Girl with wide Mouth
) in the Ashmolean's inventory of the Chambers Hall Gift. It is one of a few figure studies verging on caricature, dating from Wilson's first years in Italy, and predominantly originating from the collection of William Lock.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
1883
1883
Bibliography
Brown 1982, p. 657, no. 1883, pls 536 & XL; Solkin 1982, p. 158
Brown 1982, p. 657, no. 1883, pls 536 & XL; Solkin 1982, p. 158
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05/09/2017
05/09/2017
Work of Art
Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
Baltimore Museum of Art, USA, 1979-80
Biographies
Chambers Hall, 1786-1855
Documents
David Solkin,
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
David Blayney Brown,
Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume IV: The Earlier British Drawings, British Artists and Foreigners working in Britain born before c.1775
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