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    A Church at Ariccia

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    A Church at Ariccia
    A Church at Ariccia
    A Church at Ariccia
    Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Church at Ariccia
    Date
    c.1754 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump with white highlights over graphite
    Dimensions
    Metric: 120 x 170 mm
    Imperial: 4 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.
    Collection
    Private Collection, England
    Wilson Online Reference
    D282
    Description
    In the foreground a man on horseback is led out of a dark wood by another man with a staff. The rough road stretches back towards a Baroque pedimented church in the distance. Three robed figures are coming out of the church, the foremost of whom gives alms to a seated beggar-woman.
    Exhibited
    Conwy 2009 (7)
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; William Esdaile; Captain R. Ford; Mrs Richard Ford; Sotheby's 9 March 1947 (89), bt Brinsley Ford; by descent
    Signature/inscription
    Signed in black chalk lower right: RW [monogram, the R reversed]
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Recto lower right: William Esdaile (Lugt 2617)
    Subject
    Located between the lakes of Nemi and Albano on the Via Appia Nuova, southeast of Rome, Ariccia was celebrated for its groves, thought to have been the hunting-grounds of the goddess Diana. The area had been a haunt of Gaspard Dughet.
    Related Paintings
    P46 Ariccia I, Tate, London and other versions
    Critical commentary
    Ford proposed that the drawing was made in the studio from a sketch done in Italy
    Bibliography
    Ford 1951, p. 64, no. 84; WGC, p. 193, pl. 68a.; [unlisted in Walpole Society 1998-I], Lord 2009, p. 50, no. 7

    Work of Art

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Landscape near Rome , Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

    Paintings

    • Ariccia I, Tate, London

    Exhibitions

    • Conwy, Royal Cambrian Academy, 24 October - 23 December 2009

    Biographies

    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • William Esdaile (1758-1837)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Peter Lord, Richard Wilson. Life & Legacy
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
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