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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 15(v) and 16(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 15(v) and 16(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 15(v) and 16(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 15(v) and 16(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 15(v) and 16(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Graphite with black and white chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm (each sheet)
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in. (each sheet)
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 v15 & r16
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/15
    Description
    15(v) is blank
    16(r) depicts a full-length partly-draped female figure in high relief against a cornice
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    16(r) inscribed in black chalk upper right: in the Capital [sic]
    Subject
    The Hadrianeum, dedicated by Antonius Pius in 145 AD ws a temple which deified Hadrian and included reliefs of 29 provinces and trophies. This one is usually identified as Egypt on account of the drapery, knotted at the waist.
    Critical commentary
    16(r): Clements noted that this is one of the reliefs from the Hadrianeum, part of the north east side of which is still standing in the Piazza di Pietra. It is now in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori and was probably there when Wilson drew it, hence the inscription.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 14-15; vol. 2, p. 35
    More Information
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922).

    Biographies

    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)

    Documents

    • Denys Sutton & Ann Clements, An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, RA: Drawings made by the Artist in Rome and its Environs in the Year 1754
    This drawing is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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