Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
Date
1754
Medium
Black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
Dimensions
Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 v22 & r23
Wilson Online Reference
D280/22
Description
An outline drawing over two pages of a landscape with a square crenellated tower in a wooded valley with figures
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Critical commentary
A group of figures summarily indicated on the extreme left seem to be carrying something long - perhaps a tree trunk. Clements noted that the site might be near Marino as a similarly crenellated tower occurs in a gouache showing the town by Giovanni Battista Busiri which in 1968 was in the R.W. Ketton-Cramer collecftion, and which she reproduces (Fig. 48).
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 21-22; vol. 2, p. 41
More Information
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).
Updated by Compiler
2016-07-15 00:00:00