Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)

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Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
Royal Academy of Arts, London
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Artist
James Gandon (1742-1823) after Wilson
Title
Baths of Dioclesian (from Twelve Original Views in Italy)
Date
Undated
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Metric: 154 x 224 mm
Imperial: 6 1/16 x 8 13/16 in.
Accession Number
05/4501
Wilson Online Reference
E34A
Description
A broad open space, flanked by buildings on either side including the ruins of the Baths, with another building at the far end. In the right foreground a woman and boy talk to a beggar leaning against a post. Further away there are two groups of two figures and a man with a staff near fragments of a fallen column. Other figures can be seen near a wall on the right. Light from the left casts a shadow over most of the foreground.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image:
[1] Lower left: R. Wilson del.
[2] Lower right: Jas. Gandon sc.
[3] Lower centre: BATH'S of DIOCLESIAN. [sic]
Related Drawings
D106 Baths of Diocletian, British Museum, London
Versions
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Previous Cat/Ref Nos
PL003842
Bibliography
Edwards 1808, p. 88; T.J. Mulvany, The Life of James Gandon, Esq. 1846, facsimile reprint ed. M. Craig, 1969, pp. 191-92
More Information
Bound in a nineteenth-century volume with Charles Hullmandel's lithographic 24 Views of Italy, 1818.
E34A is one of the few extant impressions of this etching (along with E34) to lack Boydell's publication line. This may indicate that, together with other prints in the series Twelve Original Views in Italy, it was first commissioned by Wilson with a view to publication himself, and only later passed or sold to Boydell when Wilson was hard pressed for cash.
Condition/Conservation
Some discoloured spotting
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2025-05-01 00:00:00