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    View of Tivoli (Tivoli and the Great Cascade)

    View of Tivoli (Tivoli and the Great Cascade)
    View of Tivoli (Tivoli and the Great Cascade)
    View of Tivoli (Tivoli and the Great Cascade)
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    View of Tivoli (Tivoli and the Great Cascade)
    Date
    c.1753-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump heightened with white on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 238 x 366 mm
    Imperial: 9 7/16 x 14 3/8 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1939.94
    Wilson Online Reference
    D98
    Description
    The falls of Tivoli are shown with buildings and trees on either side, apparently viewed from the Ponte San Rocco, looking across the torrent and emphasising the beauty and power of the surging water. The town of Tivoli lies beyond and the cathedral with its tower to left of the centre.
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (82); Manchester 1925 (48); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (33)
    Provenance
    Benjamin Booth; Lady (Marianne) Ford; thence by descent; Captain Richard Ford; Christie's 17 June 1929 (2), bt Parsons (14 guineas); purchased 1939
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Mount inscriptions
    Inscribed in brown ink on the back of the old mount:
    [1] Wilson
    [2] Marianne Ford
    Related Drawings
    D98A Ascribed to Wilson, The Falls of Tivoli, The British Museum
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Jacob Philipp Hackert, View of the Cascata Grande at Tivoli, 1769, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
    [2] Joseph Denis (1755-1813), The Cascades at Tivoli with an Artist sketching, Gere Collection, on loan to the National Gallery, London
    Critical commentary
    One of a group of Wilson drawings formerly in the Ford Collection and purchased directly from the artist by Lady (Marianne) Ford's father, Benjamin Booth
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1891
    Bibliography
    Brown 1982, p. 661, no. 1891, pl. 542; Solkin 1982, p. 162

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Falls of Tivoli, The British Museum

    Versions

    • Ascribed to Wilson, The Falls of Tivoli, The British Museum

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925

    Biographies

    • Benjamin Booth (1732-1807)
    • Marianne Booth, Lady Ford (1767-1849)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • 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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