Studies & Designs: View inside an ancient Building with shallow round…

Studies & Designs: View inside an ancient Building with shallow round…
Studies & Designs: View inside an ancient Building with shallow round…
Studies & Designs: View inside an ancient Building with shallow round…
National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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Artist
John Whessell (c.1760-1806) after Wilson
Title
Studies & Designs: View inside an ancient Building with shallow round Archways
Date
Published 1811
Medium
Soft-ground etching on India laid paper (proof)
Dimensions
Metric: 101 x 143 mm
Imperial: 4 x 5 9/16 in.
Accession Number
NMW A 10972
Wilson Online Reference
E60/5A
Description
View inside an ancient building with shallow round archways and two figures in the right foreground on a bank inside - all within an etched rectangular border
Provenance
Thomas Henry Thomas Bequest 1916
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image 'Wilson del | Whessell Sc'
Mount inscriptions
[1] Left centre, pencil: 13
Related Drawings
D53/27 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 27, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Versions
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Critical commentary
From a set of small soft-ground etchings by Whessell made after Wilson's drawings in a sketchbook at the Victoria & Albert Museum (D53-D53/81). The present one is taken from p. 27 (D53/27). In 1811 the etchings were published by the Oxford-based publisher, Robert Archer in more than one format.
Bibliography
Archer 1811, p. 13