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    Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)

    Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)
    Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)
    Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Life-size Head of a Man (Head of an Italian)
    Date
    c.1752-53 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with white on grey laid paper,
    Dimensions
    Metric: 362 x 267 mm
    Imperial: 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    DYCE.637
    Wilson Online Reference
    D161
    Exhibited
    London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (23)
    Provenance
    Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce 1869
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Critical commentary
    Ford compared the stylistic handling of this drawing with that of D162 Portrait of Thomas Jenkins, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York, noting the rendering in the dark shadow of the eye sockets and the handling of the collar and cuff.
    Bibliography
    Solkin 1982, p. 158; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 66-67, fig. 38

    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

    • The Revd Alexander Dyce (1798-1869)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
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