Classical Landscape with Figures

Classical Landscape with Figures
Classical Landscape with Figures
Classical Landscape with Figures
The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Classical Landscape with Figures
Date
c.1752-54 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, stump, touches of white chalk on paper prepared with light brown wash and inlaid on modern cream paper
Dimensions
Metric: 158 mm diameter
Imperial: 6 1/4 in. diameter
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.880
Wilson Online Reference
D195
Exhibited
Oxford Arts Club 1937; Courtauld Institute, London May-June 1977 (4)
Provenance
J.P. Heseltine; Sir Robert Witt (bought Walker n.d.); bequeathed by Sir Robert Clermont Witt, 1952
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Verso inscriptions
[1] Old hand in ink, lower right: R Wilson
More Information
Wilson made a number of circular drawings like this, using stump rather than line work for modelling. They were more popular with his fellow artists than with other patrons.