The Vatican and Environs (Distant View of St Peter's Rome)

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The Vatican and Environs (Distant View of St Peter's Rome)
The Vatican and Environs (Distant View of St Peter's Rome)
The Vatican and Environs (Distant View of St Peter's Rome)
Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
The Vatican and Environs (Distant View of St Peter's Rome)
Date
c.1754 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk and stump heightened with white on grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 305 x 528 mm
Imperial: 12 x 20 3/4 in.
Collection
Location Unknown
Wilson Online Reference
D298
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy 1953, Drawings by Old Masters, (456 - Distant View of St Peter's, Rome); London 1968 (646)
Provenance
Christie's London, 4 March 1935 (15), bt Colnaghi (12 guineas); Sir Bruce Ingram (d.1963); present location unknown
Signature/inscription
Inscribed lower centre: The Vatican and Environs
Related Drawings
D204 View of St Peter's from the Palace of the Caesars, with the Circus Maximus below, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Gurley Memorial Collection
D311 View of St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Related Prints
E59 Samuel Middiman after Wilson, View of Rome, The British Museum
E59A Samuel Middiman after Wilson, View of Rome, The British Museum
E59B Samuel Middiman after Wilson, View of Rome, The British Museum
Related Paintings
P57 Rome: St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Tate, London
P57A St Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Critical commentary
An unfinished study made on the spot though more worked up than D204
Bibliography
Ford 1951, p. 61, no. 61; Herrmann 1973, p. 53, pl. 44A; Galassi 1991, pp. 20-21, pl. 14
Updated by Compiler
2017-11-09 00:00:00