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    Panoramic View of San Marino

    Panoramic View of San Marino
    Panoramic View of San Marino
    Panoramic View of San Marino
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Panoramic View of San Marino
    Date
    1751 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on three sheets of white paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 193 x 812 mm
    Imperial: 7 5/8 x 32 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Accession Number
    RF65
    Wilson Online Reference
    D47
    Description
    Before an extensive landscape of the ancient republic of San Marino, an artist (presumed to be Wilson himself) is shown drawing in the company of a gentleman, presumed to be his patron and travelling companion, William Lock of Norbury.
    Exhibited
    London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-3 (18); Gainsborough House 2014 (unnumbered)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed in Wilson's hand, upper left: S.M.
    Techniques and materials
    The rough appearance of the drawing suggests that it was taken in haste during the journey from Venice to Rome
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Slight sketch on verso of the right-hand sheet of a postilion riding the left of two horses, seen from behind as if by passengers in a coach
    Subject
    The tiny landlocked republic of San Marino is nine miles south of Rimini on the north-eastern side of the Apennine Mountains.
    Related Drawings
    D45 San Marino, Italy, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (66.2)
    Critical commentary
    This is the largest and the most ambitious of the drawings Wilson made on his journey from Venice to Rome. It comprises three sheets joined to give a panoramic aspect. The two figures in the left foreground, one of them drawing, presumably represent or refer to Wilson himself and William Lock his companion - the only example of figures of the artist and this patron in Wilson's entire oeuvre. A smaller and slighter sketch by Wilson of San Marino, showing part of the capital itself, is D45 (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California).
    Bibliography
    Constable 1954, p. 144, fig.12; Solkin 1982, p. 156; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 70, RF65
    Updated by Compiler
    05/03/2021

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), San Marino, Italy, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Garden

    Exhibitions

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

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • Richard Ford (1796-1858)
    • Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
    • Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
    • John G. Ford (-1917)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • William George Constable, 'Richard Wilson: Some Pentimenti'
    • Brinsley Ford and other authors, The Ford Collection
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