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The Log Fire
The Log Fire
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
The Log Fire
Date
c.1751-52 (undated)
Medium
Black and red chalks, heightened with white, on grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 172 x 242 mm
Imperial: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Details
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF73
Wilson Online Reference
D71
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (25 -
Logs burning
)
Provenance
William Lock of Norbury
; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821 (part of 392?); Marianne Ford; thence by descent
Related Paintings
P51
Landscape with Banditti round a Tent
, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Critical commentary
Probably a study for the log fire in the right foreground of P51
Landscape with Banditti round a Tent
, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, painted in 1752 for the Earl of Wicklow. Wilson began to use grey paper for his drawings soon after his arrival in Rome, following the example of French artists there.
Bibliography
Ford 1951, pp. 25-26; Ford May 1951, p. 162, fig. 25: Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 70, RF 73
Work of Art
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
Landscape with Banditti round a Tent
, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
Landscape with Banditti: The Murder,
National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Exhibitions
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Biographies
William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
Richard Ford (1796-1858)
Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999)
Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)
Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899)
John G. Ford (-1917)
Documents
Brinsley Ford,
The Drawings of Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford, 'Richard Wilson in Rome: I - The Wicklow Wilsons'
Brinsley Ford and other authors,
The Ford Collection