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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Welsh Valley (Hills and a Quarry; View near the Loggerheads, Denbighshire)
    Date
    c.1765 (undated)
    Medium
    Graphite, black chalk and stump on white laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 238 x 372 mm
    Imperial: 9 3/4 x 14 5/8 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.143
    Wilson Online Reference
    D363
    Description
    The view is taken from a point close to Colomendy Hall, near Llanferres, Denbighshire where Wilson's cousin, Catherine Jones, lived and where he stayed regularly, dying there in 1782. The prospect is north-west towards the River Alun.
    Exhibited
    Birmingham 1948-49 (129); London 1949 (128)
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Very faintly inscribed in black chalk, lower right corner: Wilson
    Techniques and materials
    There are compositional additions to the foreground, probably by Wilson himself
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Mount inscriptions
    [1] Inscribed on old grey washline mount: No. 13
    Related Paintings
    P155 View near the Loggerheads, Denbighshire, Tate, London
    Critical commentary
    The drawing was used for P155. Chambers Hall described the subject as 'Campagna towards Albano, very elegant in line' but as Ford remarked, the style is different from the Italian drawings. Furthermore the paper bears a Strasburg lily watermark, which is not found in any of those drawings.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1908
    Bibliography
    Vasari Society, 2nd series, part 4, no. 18; Ford 1951, pp. 37, 62, no. 75; WGC, p. 178, pl. 40c; Herrmann 1973, p. 56, pl. 48A; Brown 1982, p. 669, no. 1908; Pugh 2013, p. 41, pl. 1.6
    Updated by Compiler
    2016-12-12 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), View near the Loggerheads, Denbighshire, Tate, London

    Exhibitions

    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
    • London, Tate Gallery, 22 January - 14 March 1949

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • John Barrell, Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
    • Luke Herrmann, British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century
    • David Blayney Brown, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume IV: The Earlier British Drawings, British Artists and Foreigners working in Britain born before c.1775
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