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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 17(v) and 18(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 17(v) and 18(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 17(v) and 18(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 17(v) and 18(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 17(v) and 18(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v17 & r18
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/17
    Description
    17(v) is blank
    18(r) depicts a tiled rooftop with chimneys and part of an arch or aqueduct beyond
    Exhibited
    Tercentenary 2014 (143)
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned;
    18(r) inscribed illegibly on roof, lower right
    Critical commentary
    18(r): The view was probably taken from the window of Wilson's lodgings in Rome or the Roman Campagna. Clements suggested that the word inscribed on the roof was intended as a colour notation.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 16-17; vol. 2, p. 38; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 316
    More Information
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).

    Exhibitions

    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014

    Biographies

    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Denys Sutton & Ann Clements, An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
    This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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