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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 16(v) and 17(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 16(v) and 17(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 16(v) and 17(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 16(v) and 17(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings pp. 16(v) and 17(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 v16 & r17
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/16
    Description
    16(v) is blank
    17(r) is a quick sketch of a plinth surmounted by a sculptural group of a lion attacking a collapsing horse from behind
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Subject
    The sculpture itself, a restored Roman copy in luna marble of a Hellenistic original, is in the garden of the Palazzo dei Conservatori. For centuries one of the most famous monuments in Rome, in Wilson's day it was in the courtyard of the palazzo.
    Related Paintings
    P90C The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765), A Capriccio of the Roman Forum, 1741 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1964.41) and other capricci
    [2] George Stubbs (1724-1806), A Lion attacking a Horse, 1762 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, B1977.14.71) and other versions
    Critical commentary
    The sculpture was often depicted in the 18th century, appearing in several capricci by the Roman artist Giovanni Paolo Panini, and providing the source of the much-repeated Lion attacking a Horse by George Stubbs, who visited Rome briefly in 1754. Wilson himself used the group in P90C The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, where it appears on the far right among trees.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 15-16; vol. 2, pp. 36-37
    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).

    Work of Art

    Paintings

    • The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

    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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