Untitled ('L'Anconetta near Venice')

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Untitled ('L'Anconetta near Venice')
Untitled ('L'Anconetta near Venice')
Untitled ('L'Anconetta near Venice')
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
Thomas Hastings after Wilson
Title
Untitled ('L'Anconetta near Venice')
Date
Published 1823
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
Metric: 155 x 208 mm
Imperial: 6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.
Accession Number
1854,0708.82
Wilson Online Reference
E72/25
Description
A man is seated on a bank and another punts a boat in the foreground at the left. Beyond, on an island, a group of monks enters a church, with a leaning cross on the tower and windswept trees behind. To the left is an expanse of sea, lit by a diagonal beam of light from beyond a cloudy sky.
Provenance
Bought from George Willis, Piazza, Covent Garden, 1854
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image: 'The Original is in the Possession of Lady Ford 10 In. by 7 1/2 In'; production details and publication line: 'Painted by R. Wilson' 'Etched by T. Hastings | .1823.'
Page numbered lower right: 28
Related Drawings
D193 Studio of Wilson, The Island of Anconetta, Venice, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Related Paintings
P149 L'Anconetta with Venice beyond, Private Collection, England
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
PRA324462
Bibliography
Hastings 1825, repr.; WGC, p. 193 under pl. 66c; 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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