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    "London, Cardiff and New Haven 1982-83" Is linked to these Works of Art
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    A Fisherman's Dwelling

    A Fisherman's Dwelling
    A Fisherman's Dwelling
    A Fisherman's Dwelling
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Fisherman's Dwelling
    Date
    c.1751 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 156 x 216 mm
    Imperial: 6 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF61
    Wilson Online Reference
    D36
    Description
    In the left foreground is a tree festooned with a fishing net, behind which is a house. To the right a man holding a staff stands on a rock, a woman and child are ween beyond to his left and a fourth figure appears inthe door of the house.
    Exhibited
    Exeter 1946 (54 - Landscape); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (14); Gainsborough's House 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Signed lower left: R.W.f.
    Subject
    Probably a rococo invention rather than a topographical view
    Related Drawings
    D29 A Rocky Landscape, Private Collection, England
    D336 Fishermen on a Rock in a River, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
    Critical commentary
    Probably executed in Venice or shortly afterwards during Wilson's journey to Rome (1751-52). The paper bears the top half of an Italian 1747 watermark. The lower half appears in D29 A Rocky Landscape, Private Collection, England. Wilson's style of monogram signature is used on a number of drawings from early in his career, some of them depicting imaginary subjects.
    Bibliography
    W.A. Churchill, Watermarks in Paper in the XVII and XVIII Centuries, Amsterdam, 1935, no. 262; Ford 1951, p. 52, pl. 4; Solkin 1982, p. 154; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 69, RF61
    Updated by Compiler
    15/11/2018

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • A Rocky Landscape, Private Collection, England
    • Fishermen on a Rock in a River, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
    • Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 2014

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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