Chair and Sword Hilt

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Chair and Sword Hilt
Chair and Sword Hilt
Chair and Sword Hilt
National Galleries of Scotland / Photography by Antonia Reeve
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Chair and Sword Hilt
Date
c.1751-52 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk and stump on grey paper, laid down
Dimensions
Metric: 195 x 244 mm
Imperial: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Accession Number
D 4663
Wilson Online Reference
D69
Provenance
Herbert Horne; Sir Edward Marsh; presented through the National Art Collections Fund, 1953
Related Drawings
D68 Still Life with Flask, The British Museum (1953,0509.5)
Critical commentary
There is a sketch of a seated male figure verso. This drawing and D68 Still Life with Flask, The British Museum (1953,0509.5) are both early, most probably executed during Wilson's sojourn in Italy. Both are rare in his output as examples of still-life rather than landscape and they reflect a style of modelling in light and shade then current in Venice.
Bibliography
Ford 1951, pl. 24, p. 55; Baker 2011, pp. 414 & 416 repr.
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2015-02-05 00:00:00