176 Items No items selected
1 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 176
Banks of the Tiber
Rhode Island Museum of Art, School of Design, Providence
Larger Image Select Item Email Link Print Feedback
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Banks of the Tiber
Dated 1757
Red and white chalks on tan laid paper
168 x 219 mm
6 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.
2006.122.9
D344
London, Agnews, January 1958, Water-colour Drawings; London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (58); Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, September 2011-June 2012 Distant Climes: 18th-Century British Views of Italy.
Earl of Warwick; Christie's 20 May 1896 (probably part of lot 444 or 445); Charles Fairfax Murray; Mrs F.L. Evans, London 1953; Christie's 6 June 1972 (47) [...] anonymous gift 2006
Signed lower left corner: R W f.
Dated lower right corner: 1757
Inscribed lower centre: Banks of the Tiber
[1] Recto, lower right corner: Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600)
E72/29 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, On the Tiber, The British Museum
P103 On the Tiber, Private Collection, England
P144 The White Monk - I, Toledo Museum of Art
Possibly linked with the genesis of the White Monk compositions, in some of which a similar building appears
Ford 1951, p. 35, n. 1; WGC, pp 38 & 222 under pl. 114; Solkin 1982, pp. 176-177; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 68-69, fig. 39