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    Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi)

    Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi)
    Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi)
    Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi)
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi)
    Date
    1823
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 150 x 182 mm
    Imperial: 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.87
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/30
    Description
    View of a lake from a hillside, with a man and two women on a rock in the centre foreground. A shepherd is herding sheep on the distant shore below to the left and a large house can be seen behind, partly obscured by trees. Fields and other buildings are visible in the distance, with mountains beyond.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image: 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford. | - about 28 Inches by 23 -'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings 1823.'
    Page numbered lower left and lower right: 30
    Related Drawings
    D387/1 Lake Scene, Private Collection, England
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    NWP101B Ascribed to Wilson, The Head of Lake Nemi, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven (Lady Ford's painting) and other versions
    Critical commentary
    From a series of forty etchings after paintings by Richard Wilson and additional title page, bound in a volume in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Wilson's | Etchings | by | Hastings'; the title page lettered in black and red: 'Etchings, | from the Works | of | [ facsimile of signature below portrait] Ric. Wilson | with Some Memoirs of his Life, &c. | by Thomas Hastings, Esq. | Collector of His Majesty's Customs. | "Non Ductus Officio Sed Amore Operis." Quintillian. | Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London. | Johnson, Typ. Apollo Press, 1825. Brook Street, Holborn'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PRA324510
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC p. 207 under pl. 92a; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
    More Information
    George Willis was an antiquarian book dealer, who occasionally published books and prints. His firm was active from 1832-1856 and sold many prints to the British Museum. In 1856 it merged with Thomas Sotheran to become Willis & Sotheran.
    Updated by Compiler
    09/12/2015

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Scene, Private Collection, England

    Versions

    • Thomas Hastingsafter Wilson, Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi), The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Head of Lake Nemi (The Nemi Lake near Rome), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
    • Ascribed to Wilson, Lake Nemi, Magdalen College, Oxford
    • Ascribed to Wilson, The Head of Lake Nemi, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Biographies

    • Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • Thomas Hastings, Etchings from the Works of Ric. Wilson, with some Memoirs of his Life &c.
    • Marianne A. Yule, Captain Thomas Hastings (1778-1854): His full Identity revealed
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
    View sketchbook pages
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