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    Temple of Bacchus, Rome

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    Temple of Bacchus, Rome
    Temple of Bacchus, Rome
    Temple of Bacchus, Rome
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Temple of Bacchus, Rome
    Date
    c.1754 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on grey paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 238 x 394 mm
    Imperial: 9 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1953.27
    Wilson Online Reference
    D274
    Description
    Framed by a tree growing on a bank in the left foreground a group of buildings is seen in the middle distance,with a ruined circular one in the centre. Beyond this at the right another circular building with a domed roof is the former Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of Santa Constanza. At the left more buildings include the tower and upper part of the Church of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura.
    Provenance
    Paul Sandby; his sale, Christie's May 1811 (93); Jeffrey; R.P. Roupell; Christie's, 12-14 July 1887 (1357); Edward Riggall; Sotheby's, 4 July 1901 (103); Herbert Horne; Sir Edward Marsh; bequeathed 1953 to the Ashmolean Museum through the National Art-Collections Fund
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower left corner: Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Inscribed in an old hand: The Temple of Bacchus. 10-6
    Related Drawings
    D307 The Temple of Bacchus, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Critical commentary
    This unembellished drawing made on the spot was later worked up into D307, the presentation drawing for Lord Dartmouth. Ford has remarked that the proportions of the dome of the temple/church are more accurate in this version. Brown noted that the trees and other foreground details on the left are more emphasised than the rest of the composition and were probably an addition made in the studio.
    Bibliography
    Ford 1948, p. 345; Ford 1951, pp. 30-31, 59, no. 53; Solkin 1978, pp. 405-6, pl. 18a; Brown 1982, p. 660, no. 1888, pl. 541
    Condition/Conservation
    Some spotting overalll

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), The Temple of Bacchus, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York

    Biographies

    • Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)
    • Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)
    • Herbert Horne (1864-1916)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, 'Some New Light on the Drawings of Richard Wilson'
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • 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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