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    Landscape Sketch: View through the Arches

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    Landscape Sketch: View through the Arches
    Landscape Sketch: View through the Arches
    Landscape Sketch: View through the Arches
    National Galleries of Scotland / Photography by Antonia Reeve
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Landscape Sketch: View through the Arches
    Date
    c.1751-52
    Medium
    Red chalk on paper, inlaid
    Dimensions
    Metric: 92 x 153 mm
    Imperial: 3 5/8 x 6 in.
    Collection
    National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    D 4659
    Wilson Online Reference
    D75
    Description
    This study perhaps shows a view across a river with soldiers in the foreground
    Exhibited
    London 1916 (14); London 1925 (78); Manchester 1925 (3)
    Provenance
    Henry Revely (1737-1798), writer; his sale Christie's, 11 May 1852; Dr Edward Riggall; his sale, Sotheby's, second portion of prints and drawings, 4 July 1891 (103); Herbert Horne (1864-1916); Sir Edward Marsh; presented through the National Art Collections Fund, 1953
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed verso
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Stamp lower right corner: Henry Revely (Lugt 1356)
    Verso inscriptions
    Inscribed in pencil, upper centre: Richd. Wilson f
    Mount inscriptions
    The entry from the London 1916 catalogue, which gives the provenance, is adhered to the modern mount
    Bibliography
    Binyon 1916, p. 21; Baker 2011, pp. 413 & 414 repr.
    Condition/Conservation
    In good condition

    Exhibitions

    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925
    • London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1916

    Biographies

    • Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)
    • Herbert Horne (1864-1916)
    • Henry Revely (1737-1798)

    Documents

    • Christopher Baker, English Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900, National Gallery of Scotland
    • Laurence Binyon, Exhibition of the Herbert Horne Collection of Drawings
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