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View from the Palatine Hill (?)
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View from the Palatine Hill (?)
View from the Palatine Hill (?)
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
View from the Palatine Hill (?)
Date
c.1752-56 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
Metric: 133 x 210 mm
Imperial: 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF79
Wilson Online Reference
D211
Description
Two figures, one sitting, one standing, are seen before an extensive city vista with a tower and framing trees to the right
Exhibited
London 1925 (75); Manchester 1925 (2); Exeter 1946 (18); London, Cardiff and New Haven 1982-83 (82); Gainsborough House 2014 (unnumbered)
Provenance
William Lock of Norbury
; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne [?] Ford; thence by descent
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Bibliography
Solkiin 1982, pp. 196-97; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 71, RF 79
Exhibitions
London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, 11 January - 31 May 2014