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Banks of the Tiber (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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James Gandon (1742-1823) after Wilson
Banks of the Tiber (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
Published 29 January 1776
Etching
Spine: 254 mm; sheet: 248 x 343 mm; plate: 184 x 257 mm
Spine: 10 in.; sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.; plate: 7 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.
B1977.14.21011(e)
E36
View of a river with a figure walking past a tree on the path in the left middle ground, about to pass a man sitting at the roadside. There is another figure in a boat below and buildings on the opposite bank.
Acquired 1977
Lettered below the image with title and production detail: 'R. Wilson del', 'Jas. Gandon sc'
E72/21 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, On the River Tiber, near Rome, The British Museum
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Object ID: 49690
Booth Notes Doc. 7; Edwards 1808, p. 88; T.J. Mulvany, The Life of James Gandon, Esq. 1846, facsimile reprint ed. M. Craig, 1969, pp. 191-92
Bound with eleven other 'original views' in an old leather binding with 'Views of Rome' imprinted on the spine but lacking a title page. Spine of the binding: 254 mm (10 in.)