A View on the Arno

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A View on the Arno
A View on the Arno
A View on the Arno
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
John Young after Wilson
Title
A View on the Arno
Date
1821
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Metric: 122 x 167 mm
Imperial: 4 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.
Accession Number
1859,1210.355
Wilson Online Reference
E71/3
Description
Landscape with two figures in the centre foreground, one lying down with a fishing rod. There is a wide river in the centre and a castle on the cliff top on the left.
Provenance
Bought through Edward Daniell, 53 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, London, 1859
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image: LEICESTER GALLERY. | WILSON. and numbered above: No. 22
Related Paintings
P98 A Summer Evening River View ('On the Arno'- IV), Southampton City Art Gallery
Critical commentary
An outline illustration from John Young's Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, 1821. The wording 'Leicester Gallery' did not appear in the original publication.
Bibliography
John Young, Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, 1821, p. 10, no. 22
More Information
John Young (1755-1825) was a publisher, printer, mezzotinter and etcher. A pupil of J.R. Smith, he was Engraver in Mezzotinto to the Prince of Wales from 1789, Keeper of the British Institution from about 1813 and Secretary of the Artists' Benevolent Fund. His address is recorded as 65 Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square (1817-1823).