Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle

Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Landscape: Road winding past Ruins of a Castle
Date
c.1765 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk and stump, heightened with white, on brown paper, softened with stump and stuck down at corners on cream paper
Dimensions
Metric: 146 x 204 mm
Imperial: 5 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.
Accession Number
DYCE.645
Wilson Online Reference
D361A
Description
Landscape with a road winding past the ruins of a castle which is on the right. Under a projecting and broken arch, there are three figures, two standing and one seated. The rays of the sun are pouring on them from an opening in the heavily-clouded sky. In the distance to the left, there is a square tower.
Provenance
Bequeathed by the Revd Alexander Dyce
Signature/inscription
[1] Monogram lower left: RW. [the R reversed]
[2] Inscribed in black ink lower right: 645
Verso inscriptions
According to a pencil inscription on the modern support, signed in old hand: Richard Wilson | £1 11-6
Mount inscriptions
[1] Recto: Graphite on cut-out label stuck on lower right: R. Wilson
Subject
The location may have been Burton Ferry, Glamorganshire
Related Prints
E60/16 John Whessell after Wilson, Studies & Designs: View of a ruined Tower with three Figures gathered in front, The British Museum and other impressions
E72/16 Thomas Hastings after Wilson, Untitled, The British Museum and other impressions
Versions
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Related Paintings
P168 Ruined Tower with a Figure, Bristol City Museum and Gallery
P168A Two Figures by a Ruin, Felbrigg Hall, National Trust
Critical commentary
Ford believed that this drawing was probably based on D361, in which detail is less developed and the light effects less dramatic
Bibliography
DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce, London : South Kensington Museum, 1874, p. 96; Ford 1951, p. 57, no. 41; WGC, p. 221, pl. 112c
Link to WG Constable Archive Record
More Information
Previously mounted with DYCE.640
Condition/Conservation
In good condition