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    The Children of Niobe

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    The Children of Niobe
    The Children of Niobe
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    The Children of Niobe
    Date
    c.1755-60 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump, heightened with white, on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 263 x 396 mm
    Imperial: 10 3/8 x 15 5/8 in
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1847,0723.107
    Wilson Online Reference
    D325
    Description
    The scene takes place on an upland slope, with a bridge beyond on the left. At the right a youth is running in dismay to the dead body of a girl, lying foreshortened by the hollow trunk of a tree. Towards the left a young man is prostrating himself and a girl kneels with arms outstretched in supplication. Another figure approaches along the bridge at the extreme left.
    Exhibited
    London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (85)
    Provenance
    Purchased from Walter Benjamin Tiffin, July 1847
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Verso inscriptions
    Verso invisible - laid down
    Related Paintings
    P90C The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Critical commentary
    Apparently a study for an early version of Wilson's Niobe
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    834/71(23)
    Bibliography
    Binyon 13; WGC, p. 161, pl. 21b; Solkin 1982, pp.199-200
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/22
    Condition/Conservation
    Staining and rubbing upper left

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983

    Biographies

    • Walter Benjamin Tiffin (1795-1877)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
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