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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)

    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 22(v) and 23(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Black 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 v22 & r23
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/22
    Description
    An outline drawing over two pages of a landscape with a square crenellated tower in a wooded valley with figures
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Critical commentary
    A group of figures summarily indicated on the extreme left seem to be carrying something long - perhaps a tree trunk. Clements noted that the site might be near Marino as a similarly crenellated tower occurs in a gouache showing the town by Giovanni Battista Busiri which in 1968 was in the R.W. Ketton-Cramer collecftion, and which she reproduces (Fig. 48).
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 21-22; vol. 2, p. 41
    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).
    Updated by Compiler
    15/07/2016

    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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