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    The Lake of Nemi [in] Italy

    The Lake of Nemi [in] Italy
    The Lake of Nemi [in] Italy
    The Lake of Nemi [in] Italy
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    The Lake of Nemi [in] Italy
    Date
    Published 1824
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 162 x 209 mm
    Imperial: 6 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.90
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/33
    Description
    A view of Lake Nemi, framed by trees, with two naked female bathers on a rock on the shore in the foreground at right. The town buildings are on a hill on the opposite bank.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford
    2_ Ft_ In. by 1.8.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' ' Etched by T. Hastings | 1824.'
    Page numbered lower right: 33
    Related Drawings
    D105 Nemi, The British Museum
    Related Paintings
    P81 Lake Nemi, Figures Bathing, Private Collection, England (Lady Ford's painting)
    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.
    The dimensions of the related painting given in the lettering do not tally with those of P81, Lady Ford's painting.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    PRA324724
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p. 208 under pl. 93a; Yule 2015
    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
    09/01/2018

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Nemi, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Lake Nemi, Figures Bathing, Private Collection, England

    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.
    This print is part of the "Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson British Museum" sketchbook
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