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    Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge)

    Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge)
    Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge)
    Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge)
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    Artist
    Thomas Hastings after Wilson
    Title
    Untitled (Tower and Broken Bridge)
    Date
    c. 1824 (undated)
    Medium
    Etching on chine collé
    Dimensions
    Metric: 207 x 161 mm
    Imperial: 8 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1854,0708.91
    Wilson Online Reference
    E72/34
    Description
    Landscape with a broken bridge over a river in the foreground and a tower and ruined building behind at the right. Two figures are conversing on the bridge at the right and two others walking away on a path in the middle ground at left.
    Provenance
    Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image: 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford. 12 I. by 9 . In.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson.' 'Etched by T. Hastings.'
    Page numbered lower right: 34
    Related Paintings
    P190 Tower and Broken Bridge, Private Collection, England
    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
    PRA324725
    Bibliography
    Hastings 1825; WGC, p. 227, under pl. 119b; 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
    09/12/2015

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Tower and Broken Bridge, 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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