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    Holt Bridge on the River Dee

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    Holt Bridge on the River Dee
    Holt Bridge on the River Dee
    Holt Bridge on the River Dee
    Birmingham Museums Trust
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Holt Bridge on the River Dee
    Date
    c.1761-62 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk. grey wash and white bodycolour on buff prepared paper, laid down on grey card
    Dimensions
    Metric: 335 x 523 mm
    Imperial: 13 3/8 x 20 11/16 in.
    Collection
    Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    1948P46
    Wilson Online Reference
    D358
    Exhibited
    Worthing 1960 (2); London 1973-74 (36); Arts Council in collaboration with Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, British Watercolours 1760-1930, from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1981 (1); Tercentenary 2014 (74)
    Provenance
    Paul Sandby, his sale, 3 May 1811 (97 - View on the Banks of the Dee in Cheshire), bt Thane together with In the Garden at Lericci, for £9-10s; William Esdaile; Prof. J. Isaacs; Spink & Sons, London; bt by Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, 1948
    Signature/inscription
    Signed lower left corner: RW [the R reversed]
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower left corner: Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
    [2] WE No 2354
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Lower centre, pencil: - Holt + Farndon showing the Old Bridge
    [2] Lower left pencil: Bought by William Esdaile 1811. Bought at W.E.'s sale by J.A.
    [3] Lower left corner, black ink in Esdaile's hand: 1811 Paul Sandby's sale WE N2354
    [4] Lower left centre, black ink in Esdaile's hand: Wilson
    [5] Lower right, pencil: P46'48
    Labels
    [1] In file from undated exhibition: National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
    [2] From Spink and Son - mentions note in pencil, verso, 'Bought at W. Esdaile's by J. K.A.'
    Related Subjects
    Paul Sandby watercolour, Christie's 17 November 1981 (98); Christie's 25 April 1995 (13)
    Related Paintings
    P110 Holt Bridge on the River Dee, The National Gallery, London
    Critical commentary
    This drawing corresponds closely to P110 Holt Bridge on the River Dee, National Gallery, London. with the foreground figures the only significant change in the composition. As Robin Simon has observed, the drawing is unusual in Wilson's later work in being both highly finished and also closely related to an oil painting. Its precise purpose, therefore, remains something of an enigma.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    46'48
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, pp. 36, 62, no. 70; WGC, p. 175, pl. 36c; Parris 1973, p. 31; Egerton 1998, rev. 2000, pp. 328-29, fig. 1; Simon 1998; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 261
    More Information
    Paul Sandby, the first recorded owner, greatly admired Wilson and latterly bought drawings from him above their asking price in order to relieve his poverty in old age.
    Updated by Compiler
    2016-12-06 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Holt Bridge on the River Dee, The National Gallery, London

    Exhibitions

    • Worthing Art Gallery, 21 May - 18 June 1960
    • London, Tate Gallery, 20 November 1973 - 3 February 1974
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Biographies

    • William Esdaile (1758-1837)
    • Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)
    • John Thane (1748-1818)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Judy Egerton, National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
    • Robin Simon, 'Seeing double: Richard Wilson and Claude Lorrain'
    • Leslie Parris, Landscape in Britain, 1750-1850
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