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    Italian Landscape with two Figures in a Park (Classical Landscape…

    Italian Landscape with two Figures in a Park (Classical Landscape…
    Italian Landscape with two Figures in a Park (Classical Landscape…
    Italian Landscape with two Figures in a Park (Classical Landscape…
    Collection Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Landscape with two Figures in a Park (Classical Landscape with a distant Mountain)
    Date
    c.1754-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump on grey paper, heightened with white
    Dimensions
    Metric: 125 x 127 mm
    Imperial: 4 7/8 x 5 in.
    Collection
    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    RP-T-1959-163
    Wilson Online Reference
    D243
    Exhibited
    London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (57)
    Provenance
    Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784); Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809) [...] acquired 1959
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower centre: Nathaniel Hone the Elder (Lugt 2793)
    [2] Lower left centre: Paul Sandby, (Lugt 2112)
    Subject
    The distant mountain may be a reminiscence of Vesuvius, but the scene is largely imaginary.
    Related Drawings
    D242 Pastoral Landscape with a Tower, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    D411 Pastoral Landscape, Private Collection, Washington D.C.
    Critical commentary
    The drawing was one of a number in the collections of Wilson's artist-contemporaries, Nathaniel Hone and Paul Sandby, notably D411. The sale of Wilson drawings owned by William Lock 'of Norbury' included twelve 'Small circular Landscapes, Views in the Environs of Rome, taken in the years 1754 and 1756' (Sotheby's, 3 May 1821 (386)), though this drawing is not known to have belonged to him.
    Bibliography
    Solkin 1982, p. 176
    Condition/Conservation
    Image diameter: 105 mm (4 1/8 in.)

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Pastoral Landscape with a Tower, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    • Pastoral Landscape, Private Collection, Washington D.C.

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983

    Biographies

    • Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-1784)
    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)
    • Pandeli Ralli (1845-1928)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
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