Italian Hill Town above a Stream

Italian Hill Town above a Stream
Italian Hill Town above a Stream
Italian Hill Town above a Stream
Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K. / The Bridgeman Art Library
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Hill Town above a Stream
Date
c.1752-56 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk heightened with white on grey-blue paper
Dimensions
Metric: 267 x 328 mm
Imperial: 10 1/2 x 12 15/16 in.
Accession Number
13.261/53
Wilson Online Reference
D189
Exhibited
Leeds City Art Gallery, The Agnes and Norman Lupton Collection of Watercolours and Drawings, 17 May - 25 June 1972 (84)
Provenance
Arthur Morison; Sotheby's 21 May 1946 (121); Frederick Meatyard; Lupton Bequest 1952
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Bibliography
Leeds Art Calendar, no. 35, 1956, p. 23
More Information
Descendants of a distinguished Leeds family, Agnes and Norman Darnton Lupton, brother and sister, left a substantial bequest of British drawings and watercolours to the Leeds Art Gallery in 1952. Norman had attended both Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was a mechanical engineer and a successful artist.The siblings' donation to the gallery included works by Wilson, John Sell Cotman, Thomas Girtin, and J. M. W. Turner.