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    Still-Life with Flask

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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Still-Life with Flask
    Date
    c.1751-52 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump on rough-grained paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 214 x 176 mm
    Imperial: 8 1/2 x 7 in.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    1953,0509.5
    Wilson Online Reference
    D68
    Description
    A wicker-covered flask stands on a table at the left, casting a shadow onto the wall on the right
    Exhibited
    London 1916 (6); London 1925 (76); Manchester 1925 (41); Ipswich 1927 (107 - Still Life); London 1934 (1102); Paris 1938 (254); Birmingham 1948-49 (122); London 1949 (121); Arts Council 1951 (211); BM 1969 (109); Kenwood 1974 (50); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (25)
    Provenance
    4th Earl of Warwick; Herbert Horne; Sir Edward Marsh, 1904; bequeathed through the National Art Collections Fund, 1953
    Signature/inscription
    Signed lower centre: R W.
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600)
    Related Drawings
    D69 Chair and Sword Hilt, National Galleries of Scotland (D 4663)
    Critical commentary
    Of Wilson's several drawings of still-life, this is by far the most complex. Such drawings seem to have been undertaken as studies in the play of light and shadow, probably as a result of working by candlelight, emphasised here by the contrast between his narrow hatchings and extensive use of stump. As noted by Solkin, the result is a subtle flow of chiaroscuro, quite unlike the far more schematic tonal contrasts that mark his early sketches from nature.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    851/13 (39)
    Bibliography
    Binyon 1916, p. 20; Ipswich 1927, p. 68; Vasari Society, 2nd series, part XIV, 1933, p. 7, no. 2; Commemorative Catalogue 1934 (580); Ford 1951, p. 55, pl. 23; Festival 1951, p. 67, pl. Va; Solkin 1982, p. 159; Spencer-Longhurst 2012, pp. 72-73, fig. 42
    Illustrations of the Work
    Vasari Society, 2nd series, part XIV, no. 2

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
    • London, Tate Gallery, 22 January - 14 March 1949
    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925
    • London, British Museum, 1969
    • London, Kenwood House, Iveagh Bequest, 8 June - 27 August 1974
    • London, Royal Academy, 6 January - 17 March 1934
    • London, Festival of Britain, 1951
    • Ipswich Museum, 7 October - 5 November 1927
    • Paris, Palais du Louvre, 1938
    • London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1916

    Biographies

    • George Guy Greville Brooke, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893)
    • Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)
    • Herbert Horne (1864-1916)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'All the Quality of his Pictures except the Colour': Richard Wilson's Drawings as Collectors' Items
    • Brinsley Ford, Three Centuries of British Water-Colours and Drawings
    • Laurence Binyon, Exhibition of the Herbert Horne Collection of Drawings
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