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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 28(v) and 29(r)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 28(v) and 29(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 28(v) and 29(r)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 28(v) and 29(r)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings 28(v) and 29(r)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Black chalk on medium, rough, blued white wove paper, bound in vellum
    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 v28 & r29
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/28
    Description
    28(v): Blank
    29(r): Study of a large hollow tree, with a seated artist and travelling friar standing in the lower left corner and woodland beyond
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Drawings
    D280/5 Italian Sketchbook - Drawing 6(r)
    D245 The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi
    Critical commentary
    One of a number of tree studies Wilson made in Italy, e.g. D245 The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi. Figures drawing make fairly frequent appearances in Wilson's landscapes and that is what the artist here seems to be doing (rather than painting), though it is tempting to construe the prominent stick in the foreground as a mahlstick temporarily put aside. The tree may be the same as that in D280/5 but imagined on a different scale.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968, vol. 1, pp. 27-28; vol. 2, p. 49; Solkin 1982
    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).
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    2016-09-02 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Italian Sketchbook - Drawing 6(r)
    • The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi

    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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