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    Hadrian's Villa

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    Hadrian's Villa
    Hadrian's Villa
    Hadrian's Villa
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Hadrian's Villa
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump with white highlights over Graphite
    Dimensions
    Metric: 260 x 203 mm
    Imperial: 10 1/4 x 8 in.
    Collection
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    00335
    Wilson Online Reference
    D170A
    Description
    The featured building is part of Hadrian's Villa - the West Belvedere - and beyond it to the north-east are the Sabine Hills. Above the original Roman brick arcade stands a modern stuccoed farm dwelling, to which access is gained via the wooden staircase visible inside the arcade.
    Exhibited
    Gloucester 2014 (unnumbered)
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    Pentimenti on roofline
    Related Paintings
    P138C Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/89
    Condition/Conservation
    Pinhole top left; stains top right corner and lower right.

    Work of Art

    Prints

    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson, Twelve Etchings of Views in Italy - In the Villa Adriana, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson, In the Villa Adriana, The British Museum
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson, In the Villa Adriana, The British Museum
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson, In the Villa Adriana, The British Museum
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson, In the Villa Adriana, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson, In the Villa Adriana, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Celia Lucy Brightwell (1811-1875) after Wilson, Hadrian's Villa, The British Museum
    • Celia Lucy Brightwell (1811-1875) after Wilson, Hadrian's Villa, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
    • James Carter after Wilson, Hadrian's Villa, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (Part of the Ruins of Hadrian's Villa), Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (View in the Ruins of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli), Tate, London
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa), Private Collection, North America
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
    • Studio of Wilson, The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (The Ruins of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli), Magdalen College, Oxford
    • Studio of Wilson, The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa), Private Collection, England
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The West Belvedere, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Private Collection, USA
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The West Belvedere at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa), Old Westbury Gardens, New York

    Exhibitions

    • Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery, 2 January - 1 March 2014
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