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    Ionic Capitals

    Ionic Capitals
    Ionic Capitals
    Ionic Capitals
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Ionic Capitals
    Date
    c.1752 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 134 x 191 mm
    Imperial: 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF80
    Wilson Online Reference
    D228
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (88B); Exeter 1946 (24); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (26); Tercentenary 2014 (19)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Richard Ford; by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Subject
    These Ionic capitals were in the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The motif is incorporated into the foreground of P64 Rome and the Ponte Molle, 1754, National Museum Wales, P66 Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia, Private Collection, New York and P134 Moor Park, Distant View towards Cassiobury, Private Collection, England, as well as the drawing D302 Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, Huntington Library and Gallery, San Marino, California. The capitals were also drawn by Wilson's pupils, Johan Mandelberg and Johannes Wiedwelt c.1755-56 and were later engraved by Piranesi.
    Related Paintings
    P64 Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales
    P66 Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia, Private Collection, New York
    P134 Moor Park, Distant View towards Cassiobury, Private Collection, England
    Related Works by Other Artists
    Johan Mandelberg (1730-1786), Ionic Capitals, c.1755-56. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
    Critical commentary
    Wilson made several drawings of still-life themes as studies in the play of light and shadow. These exercises allowed him to develop his skills in realistic representation as he began to paint topographical views instead of rococo landscape designs. This drawing is a reworked version of one which formerly formed part of his Italian Sketchbook, Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII (D53). At some point, probably in the 19th century, that original study was removed and is now known only through a copy made by Jane Bowles, daughter of Oldfield Bowles. Her copy of the entire sketchbook is now at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
    Bibliography
    Ford 1948, fig. 8; Ford 1951, p. 53, pl. 15; Nielsen 1979, p. 440, pl. 73; Solkin 1982, pp. 159-60; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 71, RF 80; Wilson and Europe 2014, pp. 218-19
    Updated by Compiler
    03/08/2021

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Ponte Molle, Monte Mario, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

    Paintings

    • Rome from the Ponte Molle, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia, with the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli and the Broken Bridge at Narni, Private Collection, New York
    • Moor Park, Distant View towards Cassiobury, Private Collection, England

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • Captain Richard Ford (1860-1940)
    • John G. Ford (-1917)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Brinsley Ford, 'The Dartmouth Collection of Drawings by Richard Wilson'
    • Inger Hjorth Nielsen, 'Richard Wilson and Danish Artists in Rome in the 1750s'
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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