Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover

Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 32(v) and inside back cover
Date
1754
Medium
Black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper, bound in vellum
Dimensions
Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each hseet)
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 v32 & ibc
Wilson Online Reference
D280/32
Description
32(v): Blank
Inside back cover: No image but written details of Wilson's name and address
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
Inside back cover inscribed in black chalk across upper section: Questo Libro e de Monsû Wilson a la | Caffé delli Inglesi nella Piazza di Spagnia | Roma.
Related Drawings
D279 Trinità dei Monti, Rome, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Critical commentary
The inscription refers to the English Coffee House, situated on the Piazza di Spagna, which served as a gathering-place for the British community in Rome. For the first part of his lengthy stay there, Wilson resided on the Piazza and apparently adopted the cafe itself as his headquarters. For a likely view from his lodgings see D279.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 32-33; vol. 2, p. 25
More Information
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).
Updated by Compiler
2016-09-09 00:00:00