Villa Emelia

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Villa Emelia
Villa Emelia
Villa Emelia
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
Thomas Hastings after Wilson
Title
Villa Emelia
Date
Published September 1820
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
Metric: 143 x 208 mm
Imperial: 5 5/8 x 8 3/16 in.
Accession Number
1854,0708.61
Wilson Online Reference
E72/4
Description
Part of a two-storey house can be seen at the left, with a figure standing on the outside staircase. Other figures are seated under a conifer tree and near fragments from a classical building in the foreground on the right. There is a wall at the right and buildings amongst the trees beyond.
Provenance
Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image with the title, 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford of Gloucester Place.'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson, | Etched by T. Hastings. 1820 | Pubd. as th [sic] Act directs by T. Hastings Sepr. 1820.'
Related Drawings
D280/20 Italian Sketchbook - Drawings, pp. 20(v) and 21(r), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Versions
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Related Paintings
P117 Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, England
P117A Villa Emiliana near Rome, Private Collection, Scotland
Critical commentary
From a series of forty etchings after paintings by Richard Wilson and additional title page, bound in a volume in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Wilson's | Etchings | by | Hastings'; the title page lettered in black and red: 'Etchings, | from the Works | of | [ facsimile of signature below portrait] Ric. Wilson | with Some Memoirs of his Life, &c. | by Thomas Hastings, Esq. | Collector of His Majesty's Customs. | "Non Ductus Officio Sed Amore Operis." Quintillian. | Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London. | Johnson, Typ. Apollo Press, 1825. Brook Street, Holborn'; containing twenty pages of Introductory and Concluding Remarks by the etcher, including descriptions of Richard Wilson's original paintings.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
PPA324263
Bibliography
Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 199 under pl. 76b; Yule 2015, pp. 60 & 69
More Information
George Willis was an antiquarian book dealer, who occasionally published books and prints. His firm was active from 1832-1856 and sold many prints to the British Museum. In 1856 it merged with Thomas Sotheran to become Willis & Sotheran.
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