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    Lake Scene

    Lake Scene
    Lake Scene
    Lake Scene
    Photograph by Matthew Hollow
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Lake Scene
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Black chalk on grey laid paper laid down on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 200 [irregular] x 375 mm
    Imperial: 7 7/8 [irregular] x 14 3/4 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF105
    Wilson Online Reference
    D387/1
    Description
    View of a lake with figures on a steep hill in the foreground
    Provenance
    Benjamin Booth; his son, the Revd S. Booth; his sisters, Elizabeth Booth and Marianne Booth, later Lady Ford; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Benjamin Booth [?] in black ink, centre: Wilson -
    [2] Lady Ford, lower left in black ink: Marianne Ford
    [3] A later hand in pencil, inverted, lower right: Not in Brighton | Catalogue
    Related Prints
    E72/30 Hastings after Wilson, View of Lake Nemi, The British Museum and other impressions
    Related Paintings
    P101 The Head of Lake Nemi, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg and other versions
    Critical commentary
    This fragment is one of three ruined black chalk drawings summarily catalogued by Luke Herrmann in Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 73, RF105, RF 106 & RF107 - all 'certainly the remains of the work of Richard Wilson' but unmounted, torn or badly rubbed. The subject appears to be Lake Nemi (see Related Paintings).
    Bibliography
    Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 73, RF105
    Condition/Conservation
    Unmounted but laid down on cream paper. Torn and rubbed in places. Prominent brown staining upper left and mid-right; brown spotting in other areas.
    Updated by Compiler
    17/01/2017

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled (The Head of Lake Nemi), The British Museum
    • Thomas Hastings after Wilson, View 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
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Nemi, Magdalen College, Oxford
    • Ascribed to Wilson, The Head of Lake Nemi, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Additional Images

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

    Biographies

    • Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • The Revd Richard Salwey Booth (1762-1807)
    • Elizabeth Booth (1763-1819)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Richard Ford (1758-1806)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)

    Documents

    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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