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Tree Stems
Tree Stems
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Tree Stems
Date
c. 1754 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, heightened with white, on grey paper
Dimensions
Metric: 216 x 216 mm
Imperial: 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
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Collection
Private Collection, England
Accession Number
RF91
Wilson Online Reference
D287
Description
Tree trunks are shown prominently to the right in the foreground. Further back on the left a man is bending over behind a fallen tree
Exhibited
Exeter 1946 (32 -
Withered Tree Stems
); Birmingham 1948-49 (100); London 1949 (99); Arts Council 1951 (213)
Provenance
William Lock of Norbury
; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; Marianne Ford; thence by descent
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Critical commentary
As Luke Herrmann has remarked, this fresh and spontaneous drawing demonstrates Wilson's increasingly effective recording of natural scenery during the second half of his time in Italy.
Bibliography
Ford 1951, pp. 27, 53, pl. 11; Festival 1951, p. 68; Walpole 1998-I, p. 72, RF91
Exhibitions
Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
London, Tate Gallery, 22 January - 14 March 1949
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 7 March - 5 April 1946
London, Festival of Britain, 1951
Biographies
William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
Documents
Brinsley Ford,
The Drawings of Richard Wilson
Brinsley Ford and other authors,
The Ford Collection
Brinsley Ford,
Three Centuries of British Water-Colours and Drawings